{"id":21907,"date":"2022-11-28T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=21907"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:42:48","slug":"paladins-spend-thanksgiving-with-surrogate-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/paladins-spend-thanksgiving-with-surrogate-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Paladins spend Thanksgiving with surrogate &#8216;family&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning a berth in the NCAA&#8217;s FCS Playoffs is an accomplishment the Furman University Paladins are thankful for. Ahead of Saturday&#8217;s opening round versus Elon, the Paladins spent Thanksgiving among teammates and coaching staff &#8211; their &#8220;second family.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=11%2F25%2F2022+9%3A24%3A14+AM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina<\/a> visited the team and spoke to several players during a Thanksgiving feast. &#8220;I<span id=\"89\">\u00a0always miss\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"91\">my family throughout the year,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"92\">but I&#8217;m lucky to have all these <\/span><span id=\"93\">brothers on my team, and we grind <\/span><span id=\"93\">every day. So, I&#8217;m pretty much <\/span><span id=\"94\">with my family in another sense. I<\/span><span id=\"94\">t&#8217;s like my second family,&#8221; said Ryan Leavy, punter and redshirt sophomore from Tampa, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Paladins rolled past Elon 31-6. They&#8217;ll face No. 7 seed UIW in the second round Dec. 3 in San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Paladins prepare for FCS Playoffs and enjoy food, &#8216;family&#8217; and football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":21909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1569,6],"tags":[1718,1719],"class_list":["post-21907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","tag-fcs-playoffs","tag-thanksgiving"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}