{"id":1235,"date":"2013-08-28T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2018-07-02T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:51:19","slug":"larry-gallagher-61-honored-for-his-love-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/08\/28\/larry-gallagher-61-honored-for-his-love-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Gallagher &#8217;61 Honored for His Love of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been blue for more than 50 years, but that doesn\u2019t mean Larry Gallagher\u2019s feeling <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1236 size-full\" title=\"Gallagher\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Gallagher-2eppq94.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Gallagher '61\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" \/>down. No, this \u201cblue\u201d brings him pride and joy, because you see, Gallagher is an umpire and ever since he first strapped on the mask and chest protector, he\u2019s felt right at home.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher first put on umpire\u2019s gear when he was just 15 years old \u2013 too young to get behind the wheel but old enough to get behind the plate and discover the joy of umpiring.<\/p>\n<p>And now, nearly 60 years since his first game, he still works about 150 games a year and loves every inning. Read more here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been blue for more than 50 years, but that doesn\u2019t mean Larry Gallagher\u2019s feeling down. No, this \u201cblue\u201d brings &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49550,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/49550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}