{"id":2264,"date":"2013-09-04T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2013\/09\/04\/laura-hamlin-douthitt\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:07:41","slug":"laura-hamlin-douthitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2013\/09\/04\/laura-hamlin-douthitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura (Hamlin) Douthitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a 1997 Butler graduate, I was so excited to have the honor of driving Blue II and his &#8220;Pops&#8221;, Michael Kaltenmark, in the 2011 500 Festival Parade. I will never forget the crowd yelling Blue&#8217;s name and cheering as we drove through the parade route. Sometimes Blue would bark back as the crowd cheered. I was so proud to be a Butler alumni. I have attached a photo from that day. <\/p>\n<p>I was very sad to learn that Blue II had passed away. Blue was a wonderful mascot for Butler University. He will never be forgotten. Thank you to Blue&#8217;s family for your love, time and dedication to Blue and to Butler University. <\/p>\n<p>RIP, Blue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a 1997 Butler graduate, I was so excited to have the honor of driving Blue II and his &#8220;Pops&#8221;, Michael Kaltenmark, in the 2011 500 Festival&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-butler-blue-ii-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}