{"id":57004,"date":"2017-01-10T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/espn_clemson_fulfills_its_promise_by_beating_its_model_alabama\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:00:17","slug":"espn_clemson_fulfills_its_promise_by_beating_its_model_alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57004","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN) Clemson fulfills its promise by beating its model, Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, a team coached by Dabo Swinney couldn&#8217;t have won a national championship any other way.<\/p>\n<p>The Clemson coach&#8217;s life story could have been written by Horatio Alger, the guy who invented the classic American success story, if Alger had a drawl and ever said, &#8220;Bring your own guts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swinney, the former walk-on wide receiver, won his first national championship against his alma mater &#8212; the team that denied him a year ago, the monolithic defending national champion Alabama &#8212; with 1 second to play, on a throw to a former walk-on wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/18442171\/clemson-tigers-dabo-swinney-reach-dream-national-title\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Swinney: &quot;At the top of the mountain, that Clemson flag is flying!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Last team standing. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALLIN?src=hash\">#ALLIN<\/a> WIN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ceZPKhxzJ\">pic.twitter.com\/8ceZPKhxzJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Clemson Football (@ClemsonFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClemsonFB\/status\/818694352348348416\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, a team coached by Dabo Swinney couldn&#8217;t have won a national championship any other way. The Clemson coach&#8217;s life story could have been written by Horatio Alger, the guy who invented the classic American success story, if Alger had<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57004\">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":[39,50,54,209,125,128,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-men","category-sports","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57004","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=57004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}