{"id":65,"date":"2007-12-01T07:57:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T07:57:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-01T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T07:58:41","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Why Army Football Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times-Herald has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071130\/SPORTS\/711300365\">interesting article<\/a>  on &quot;Why Army Football Matters&quot;: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"articleGraf\"><em>These are tough guys preparing to face a tough world. They want to go against the best, and not fall back on any excuses like the special academic circumstances at Army that limit recruiting, or the fact a cadet&#39;s life is hardly the same as a basket-weaving major at Gridiron State.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"articleGraf\"><em>To those closest to it, there&#39;s just no imagining life without Army football.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#39;m not sure what has changed since the &#39;80s when Army had both &quot;special academic circumstances&#8230;that limit recruiting&quot; <strong>and<\/strong> appearances in bowl games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times-Herald has an interesting article on &quot;Why Army Football Matters&quot;: &nbsp; These are tough guys preparing to face a tough world. They want to go against the best, and not fall back on any excuses like the special academic circumstances at Army that limit recruiting, or the fact a cadet&#39;s life is hardly the<\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}