{"id":4148,"date":"2011-06-17T15:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:54:56","slug":"spring-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2011\/06\/17\/spring-into-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Into Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4149\" alt=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/42.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/42.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/42-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/42-315x209.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the injuries being nursed by the 20 projected starters from last year\u2019s Georgia Southern FCS playoff squad, the annual Blue-White Spring Game, could have been called the Black and Blue Game. That didn\u2019t stop a record 4,233 enthusiastic fans from coming out to see the White team hold on for a 21-20 victory over the Blue. The starters who did take the field were joined by a healthy mix of reserves who got plenty of repetitions in preparation for the 2011 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were running into each other pretty well,&#8221; said head coach Jeff Monken. &#8220;There were some good hits, good blocks and hard tackles. I think the guys really enjoyed the chance to get out there and play in front of a crowd.&#8221; Former Eagles Jayson Foster and Mark Williams served as the honorary captains for the White Team while Steve Bussoletti was the honorary captain for the Blue team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record Crowd Watches Annual Blue-White Game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-summer-2011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}