{"id":573887162,"date":"2014-11-22T23:28:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T05:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887162"},"modified":"2014-11-24T02:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:40:34","slug":"samford-at-auburn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/samford-at-auburn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Samford at Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slept in. Rode my bike around campus, which was very quiet. I watched the Minnesota at Nebraska game, which was the only early game that sounded promising. It was a good one, too. <\/p>\n<p>If only I&#8217;d known about that Wake Forest-Virginia Tech game, though, right?<\/p>\n<p>Got out to the tailgate in time for a late lunch. Visited with friends and then we all made our way in to see the game. It got off to a slow start, but briefly gave us an amazing stat:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov52.jpg\" alt=\"stat\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As the second half began I realized that one of our Samford students was sitting behind me:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov53.jpg\" alt=\"stat\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had him in class and he worked for me for two years and now there is right behind me in a stadium. What are the odds? 1:87,450.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn won, of course, but Samford looked good and fought hard throughout. This is the second time I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to see them play one another in football. It doesn&#8217;t happen all of the time, of course, but it is a special treat to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slept in. Rode my bike around campus, which was very quiet. I watched the Minnesota at Nebraska game, which was the only early game that sounded promising. It was a good one, too. If only I&#8217;d known about that Wake Forest-Virginia Tech game, though, right? Got out to the tailgate in time for a late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-football","category-samford","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887163,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887162\/revisions\/573887163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}