{"id":4865,"date":"2014-11-26T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2018-07-24T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T18:57:36","slug":"alumnus-honored-mn-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/26\/alumnus-honored-mn-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings commend alumnus and WWII vet Stanford Nelson &#8217;43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stanford Nelson &#8217;43<\/strong>\u00a0was honored by the Minnesota Vikings football team\u00a0for his\u00a0faithful military service and accomplished coaching and teaching career.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings hosted Nelson and his family as part of their annual Salute to Service game.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson, who was recently inducted into the MN Football Coaches Hall of Fame, said learning accountability\u00a0was possibly his greatest\u00a0life lesson-not only as a coach, but as a soldier as well.\u00a0\u201cI think the biggest thing I learned was that if you were given a responsibility, that you better carry it through because your life and the lives of many others was connected to carrying out that mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Nelson &#8217;43\u00a0was honored by the Minnesota Vikings football team\u00a0for his\u00a0faithful military service and accomplished coaching and teaching career. The Vikings hosted Nelson and his family as part of their annual Salute to Service game. Nelson, who was recently inducted into the MN Football Coaches Hall of Fame, said learning accountability\u00a0was possibly his greatest\u00a0life lesson-not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[3433,3432,3431],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-in-the-news","tag-mn-football-coaches-hall-of-fame","tag-mn-vikings","tag-stanford-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}