{"id":2255,"date":"2013-09-04T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2013\/09\/04\/ben-shover\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:43:53","slug":"ben-shover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2013\/09\/04\/ben-shover\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an &#8220;adopted Bulldog&#8221; (I married into it), I have enjoyed watching Blue II from his first days on campus. As a basketball season ticket holder my favorite memories are of sitting next to people who hadn&#8217;t been to a game at Hinkle before, or watching the opposing team&#8217;s fans, reactions as Blue dashed across the floor for his giant bone from the Dawg Pound. He captured everyone&#8217;s attention even the most die-hard fans of our rivals cracked a smile when they saw him. He brought a smile to anybody&#8217;s path that he crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an &#8220;adopted Bulldog&#8221; (I married into it), I have enjoyed watching Blue II from his first days on campus. As a basketball season ticket holder my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler-blue-ii-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}