{"id":409,"date":"2012-03-05T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/05\/in-praise-of-clint-dempsey\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:23:49","slug":"in-praise-of-clint-dempsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/in-praise-of-clint-dempsey\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Clint Dempsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/clint-dempsey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2104 lazyload\" title=\"clint-dempsey\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/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>Most people in the Upstate didn\u2019t even see it, and it happened in a sport they probably don\u2019t follow closely. But when U.S. Men\u2019s National Team stalwart and former Furman soccer star Clint Dempsey fired a shot just inside the post to score a goal that would ultimately beat Italy, he forever linked the state of South Carolina to American soccer history.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/03\/dempseys-foot-accounts-quite-feat\/\">Read more in the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in the Upstate didn\u2019t even see it, and it happened in a sport they probably don\u2019t follow closely. But when U.S. Men\u2019s National Team stalwart and former Furman soccer star Clint Dempsey fired a shot just inside the post to score a goal that would ultimately beat Italy, he forever linked the state of South Carolina to American soccer history. The moment wasn&#8217;t lost on Scott Adamson, a columnist with the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","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\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}