{"id":279,"date":"2012-01-04T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/dempsey-succeeds-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:25:58","slug":"dempsey-succeeds-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dempsey-succeeds-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey succeeds in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1386\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/clint-dempsey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1386 lazyload\" title=\"clint-dempsey\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/clint-dempsey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"166\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 124px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 124\/166;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clint Dempsey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last month, former Furman soccer player Clint Dempsey broke the record for goals by an American in the Premier League, when he scored his 37th in a 1-0 win against Liverpool. \u00a0Any American headed to Europe to play soccer these days will inevitably be measured against the 28-year-old Dempsey, who has been playing in England for Fulham since the start of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>An article in The New York Times noted that Dempsey plays \u201cwith a swagger well suited to the Premier League, and with no shortage of toughness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/04\/sports\/soccer\/dempseys-progress-raises-the-bar.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha27\">Read \u201cDempsey Raises the Bar for U.S. Stars in Europe\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, former Furman soccer player Clint Dempsey broke the record for goals by an American in the Premier League, when he scored his 37th in a 1-0 win against Liverpool. An article in <em>The New York Times<\/em> notes that any American headed to Europe to play soccer these days will inevitably be measured against the 28-year-old Dempsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}