{"id":26165,"date":"2011-08-13T06:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26165"},"modified":"2011-08-13T06:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T10:24:54","slug":"illinois-soldier-unfit-for-football-after-basic-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26165","title":{"rendered":"Illinois soldier unfit for football after basic training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutecutie sends us a link to an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/highschool\/blog\/prep_rally\/post\/State-deems-future-soldier-unfit-for-football-af?urn=highschool-wp4590\">Yahoo sports<\/a> about the state of Illinois who won&#8217;t grant a waiver for a student, Eddie Nuss, to play football after he missed some of the summer pre-season practices because he was in Fort Benning, GA in basic training;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s this overriding safety issue,&#8221; IHSA executive director Marty Hickman told the Record. &#8220;Our sports medicine committee continues to feel that being in shape and being in football shape are two different things. We&#8217;ve had this issue a number of times. It&#8217;s been brought to the board&#8217;s attention, and they&#8217;ve consistently said that they&#8217;re not interested in modifying this policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, being in Army basic training shape and being in football shape are two different things. I played football in high school and didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;being in shape&#8221; was until my drill sergeants showed me what being in shape was. I think someone needs to send Marty Hickman to Fort Benning, GA in the summer and let him go through the first few weeks of basic training, so he can speak to the issue with some experience behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutecutie sends us a link to an article from Yahoo sports about the state of Illinois &hellip; <a title=\"Illinois soldier unfit for football after basic training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26165\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illinois soldier unfit for football after basic training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}