{"id":992,"date":"2013-01-15T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T21:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/15\/the-long-road-to-nfls-pro-bowl\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:10:37","slug":"the-long-road-to-nfls-pro-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-long-road-to-nfls-pro-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"The long road to NFL&#8217;s Pro Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5205\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jerome-felton-news.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5205\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5205 lazyload\" title=\"jerome-felton-news\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jerome-felton-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"290\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 243px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 243\/290;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Felton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Furman football star Jerome Felton has traveled a long and winding road in the National Football League. But after he signed with the Minnesota Vikings in 2012 as a fullback and helped clear the way for Adrian Peterson to rush for more than 2,000 yards, he found a place that utilized his talent.\u00a0 His season was so successful, in fact, that Felton was selected to play in this year\u2019s Pro Bowl.\u00a0 <em>The Greenville News<\/em> caught up with Felton after the season was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Furman football star Jerome Felton has traveled a long and winding road in the National Football League. But after he signed with the Minnesota Vikings in 2012 as a fullback and helped clear the way for Adrian Peterson to rush for more than 2,000 yards, he found a place that utilized his talent. His season was so successful, in fact, that Felton was selected to play in this year\u2019s Pro Bowl.\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em> caught up with Felton after the season was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","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\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}