{"id":3709,"date":"2014-02-10T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:48:20","slug":"scott-cooper-13-writes-for-outsports-com-is-republished-by-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/10\/scott-cooper-13-writes-for-outsports-com-is-republished-by-star-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Cooper \u201913 writes for Outsports.com, is republished by Star Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Augsburg College football player Scott Cooper \u201913 wrote an article for Outsports.com in which he\u00a0described his\u00a0acceptance on and off\u00a0the field as a gay student athlete. The\u00a0<em>Star Tribune\u00a0<\/em>then\u00a0excerpted\u00a0Cooper\u2019s article on a sports blog, noting that some highlights \u201che recounted were standing with his partner on Senior Day in November and being asked by his position coach,\u00a0Mike Matson, to speak in chapel on National Coming Out Day in October.\u201d Visit the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsports.com\/2014\/2\/5\/5379200\/scott-cooper-gay-football-linebacker-augsburg-college#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Outsports.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Star Tribune\u00a0<\/em>websites to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Augsburg College football player Scott Cooper \u201913 wrote an article for Outsports.com in which he\u00a0described his\u00a0acceptance on and off\u00a0the field as a gay student athlete. The\u00a0Star Tribune\u00a0then\u00a0excerpted\u00a0Cooper\u2019s article on a sports blog, noting that some highlights \u201che recounted were standing with his partner on Senior Day in November and being asked by his position &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}