{"id":1509,"date":"2009-01-09T07:49:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2009-01-09T07:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:49:06","slug":"the-big-news-in-college-football-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"The big news in college football this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Western Washington University, which <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/6420ap_fbc_w_washington_football_dropped.html\">has decided to eliminate its football program<\/a> rather than have more money sunk into athletics. Athletic Director Lynda Goodrich said, &#8220;We are facing a dire financial crisis now and the university wasn&#8217;t prepared to continue to bail us out and absorb our budget cuts and our foundation issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/views\/2009\/01\/09\/palaima\">Tom Palaima and Nathan Tublitz<\/a> would applaud WWU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Western Washington University, which has decided to eliminate its football program rather than have more money sunk into athletics. Athletic Director Lynda Goodrich said, &#8220;We are facing a dire financial crisis now and the university wasn&#8217;t prepared to continue to bail us out and absorb our budget cuts and our foundation issues.&#8221; Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-out-of-left-field-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ol","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}