{"id":7674,"date":"2020-11-11T06:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/marshall-remembers-worst-us-sports-disaster-50-years-later\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T06:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T11:19:58","slug":"marshall-remembers-worst-us-sports-disaster-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/marshall-remembers-worst-us-sports-disaster-50-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall remembers worst US sports disaster 50 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>After a plane crash killed most of Marshall University&#8217;s football team in 1970, school administrators could have resorted to the simplest choice \u2014 dropping the losing sport altogether.  \u201cWe felt the guys would want us to go on,\u201d said Ed Carter, a sophomore offensive lineman who was supposed to be on the team plane but wasn&#8217;t.  The team&#8217;s long, determined crawl back to success was chronicled in the 2006 movie \u201cWe Are Marshall \u201d \u2014 a title borrowed from the chants that resonate at Thundering Herd games.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/marshall-remembers-worst-us-sports-160505274.html?src=rss\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Marshall remembers worst US sports disaster 50 years later\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo News &#8211; Sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a plane crash killed most of Marshall University&#8217;s football team in 1970, school administrators could have resorted to the simplest choice \u2014 dropping the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}