{"id":2277,"date":"2013-09-08T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T03:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2013\/09\/08\/kim-nickels\/"},"modified":"2013-09-08T23:18:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T03:18:57","slug":"kim-nickels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2013\/09\/08\/kim-nickels\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Nickels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many of Blue II&#8217;s fans, I have no connection to Butler.  I had a beloved bulldog named Madison who lived to the ripe old age of 11.  He passed away shortly before Butler made it to their first Final Four.  That&#8217;s where I first saw Blue II.  He looked so much like Madison, I just fell in love with him and followed him from then on.  Many thanks to Michael for making following him so easy.  I know you and your family will miss him, but I also know you have many wonderful memories.  Rest in peace Blue II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many of Blue II&#8217;s fans, I have no connection to Butler. I had a beloved bulldog named Madison who lived to the ripe old age of&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-2277","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\/2277","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=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}