{"id":87003,"date":"2019-11-29T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87003"},"modified":"2019-11-29T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:09:08","slug":"summerville-high-school-coach-john-mckissick-winningest-coach-of-all-time-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87003","title":{"rendered":"Summerville, South Carolina, High School Coach John McKissick, winningest coach of all time, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McKissick influenced not only the lives of countless athletes, but also other students and coaches. That influence extended beyond the walls of the school, reaching deep into the Summerville community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach McKissick has always had a standard he holds all his players to,\u201d Bo Blanton, a Green Wave quarterback from 1974-76, said during a 2012 interview following McKissick\u2019s 600th coaching victory. \u201cHe requires you to perform on the field, but he also expects you to represent your high school and community in a manner everyone can be proud of. Just look at the things his former players such as Converse Chellis, George Tupper and Harry Blake moved on to do for their community and state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, McKissick sent countless players off to the college ranks. The players he helped reach the NFL ranks include A.J. Green, Kevin Long, Ian Rafferty, Stanford Jennings, Keith Jennings and Zack Bailey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalscene.com\/news\/summerville-high-school-coach-john-mckissick-winningest-coach-of-all\/article_3ffbe174-dbf2-11e9-9249-13ee9536ca38.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Summerville High School Coach John McKissick, winningest coach of all time, dies | News | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h8cx5SJrVI\">https:\/\/t.co\/h8cx5SJrVI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/southcarolina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#southcarolina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/history?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#history<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/death?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#death<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vEN4pAEeVS\">https:\/\/t.co\/vEN4pAEeVS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1200405099232796679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKissick influenced not only the lives of countless athletes, but also other students and coaches. That influence extended beyond the walls of the school, reaching deep into the Summerville community. \u201cCoach McKissick has always had a standard he holds all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87003\">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":[54,438,133,128,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-sports","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87003","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=87003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87009,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87003\/revisions\/87009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}