{"id":16659,"date":"2009-12-13T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ingram_delivers_alabama_its_first_heisman\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T16:45:29","slug":"ingram_delivers_alabama_its_first_heisman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16659","title":{"rendered":"Ingram Delivers Alabama Its First Heisman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ingram dabbed his eyes, took a deep breath and tried to steady himself. All set, he accepted the Heisman that completes Alabama&#8217;s trophy case.<\/p>\n<p>The tough-running tailback turned tearful after winning the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night in the closest vote in the award&#8217;s 75-year history. Next, he&#8217;ll try to lead the most storied program in the South to a national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram finished 28 points ahead of Stanford running back Toby Gerhart.<\/p>\n<p>The sturdy, 212-pound Ingram took a moment to get composed before starting his speech. Dressed in a dark suit with blue pinstripes, his voice wavered throughout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a little overwhelmed right now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just so excited to bring Alabama their first Heisman winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory?id=9322996\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ingram dabbed his eyes, took a deep breath and tried to steady himself. All set, he accepted the Heisman that completes Alabama&#8217;s trophy case. The tough-running tailback turned tearful after winning the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16659\">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":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659","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=16659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}