{"id":63,"date":"2007-09-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-05T01:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:54:31","slug":"ltc-greg-gadson-i2-sparks-nfl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"LTC Greg Gadson (I2) Sparks NFL Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2007\/09\/ap_footballinspire_070925\/\">had an article<\/a> on <strong>Greg Gadson (I2) &#39;89<\/strong>.&nbsp; Greg spoke to the NY Giants the night before their Sept. 27th game with the Redskins.&nbsp; <strong>Mike Sullivan (B4) &#39;89<\/strong> is the Giants recievers coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&ldquo;One of the things I told the team is I love football,&rdquo; Gadson said Monday from Fort Belvoir, Va. &ldquo;It has been a big part of my life, and it still is from the standpoint of how I am fighting through what I am going through now and how I lived in the Army. I don&rsquo;t want anyone to misconstrue that football is like combat, but I told the team that it&rsquo;s the same type of emotional investment. If you put yourself in anything, these kinds of things demand your all.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Giants WR Plaxico Burress gave Greg the&nbsp;ball after Burress caught the winning touchdown pass in the 4th quarter.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Greg&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caringbridge.org\/cb\/inputSiteName.do?method=search&amp;siteName=gregorygadson\">Caring Bridge site<\/a> is up if you&#39;d like to keep track of his progress and leave a message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times had an article on Greg Gadson (I2) &#39;89.&nbsp; Greg spoke to the NY Giants the night before their Sept. 27th game with the Redskins.&nbsp; Mike Sullivan (B4) &#39;89 is the Giants recievers coach. &ldquo;One of the things I told the team is I love football,&rdquo; Gadson said Monday from Fort Belvoir, Va.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}