{"id":6198,"date":"2016-10-21T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/former-nfl-coach-returns-to-upstate-after-transplant\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:53:54","slug":"former-nfl-coach-returns-to-upstate-after-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-nfl-coach-returns-to-upstate-after-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Coach Returns to Upstate After Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman graduate and former Paladin football player Sam Wyche &#8217;66 battled 15 years with cardiomyopathy before receiving a heart transplant in September 2016. The former Cincinnati Bengals head coach says getting a new lease on life rearranges priorities. In a story by Brennan McDavid of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/news\/former-nfl-coach-sam-wyche-returns-home-after-heart-transplant\/42169486\">WYFF News<\/a>, Wyche said his mission now is to recover at his Pickens County home and to spread the\u00a0word about organ donation. &#8220;This is a mission for me to make sure there isn&#8217;t one person that hasn&#8217;t at least asked themselves, Why don&#8217;t I become an organ or tissue donor?\u00a0 Why don&#8217;t I try to save someone else&#8217;s life?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman graduate and former Paladin football player Sam Wyche &#8217;66 battled 15 years with cardiomyopathy before receiving a heart transplant in September 2016. The former Cincinnati Bengals head coach says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":16322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","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\/6198","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=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}