{"id":10327,"date":"2008-12-24T04:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T04:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_fantastic_rick_reilly_story_about_a_highly_unusual_football_game_in_texas\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T04:14:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T04:14:45","slug":"a_fantastic_rick_reilly_story_about_a_highly_unusual_football_game_in_texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10327","title":{"rendered":"A Fantastic Rick Reilly Story About a Highly Unusual Football Game in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They played the oddest game in high school football history last month down in Grapevine, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>It was Grapevine Faith vs. Gainesville State School and everything about it was upside down. For instance, when Gainesville came out to take the field, the Faith fans made a 40-yard spirit line for them to run through.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear that? The other team&#8217;s fans?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never in my life thought I&#8217;d hear people cheering for us to hit their kids,&#8221; recalls Gainesville&#8217;s QB and middle linebacker, Isaiah. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t expect another parent to tell somebody to hit their kids. But they wanted us to!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espnmag\/story?section=magazine&#038;id=3789373\">Makes the heart very glad&#8211;read it all<\/a> (Hat tip: TCW).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They played the oddest game in high school football history last month down in Grapevine, Texas. It was Grapevine Faith vs. Gainesville State School and everything about it was upside down. For instance, when Gainesville came out to take the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10327\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,128,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-sports","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}