{"id":8232,"date":"2017-11-16T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2017-11-17T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:31:04","slug":"an-auggie-throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2017\/11\/16\/an-auggie-throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"An Auggie throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Throwing-ball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Throwing-ball.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/Throwing-ball-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melissa Lee \u201904<\/strong>, Augsburg\u2019s head softball coach, threw out a ceremonial first pitch before an August Minnesota Twins game at Target Field as part of the team\u2019s annual Lutheran Night festivities. Lee joined former St. Olaf pitcher the <strong>Rev. Charlie Ruud<\/strong>, with the pair dressed in costume as historical husband and wife duo Martin Luther and Katharina (von Bora) Luther in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the 1517 Protestant Reformation. Ruud previously served as a Campus Ministry intern at Augsburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Lee \u201904, Augsburg\u2019s head softball coach, threw out a ceremonial first pitch before an August Minnesota Twins game at Target Field as part of the team\u2019s annual Lutheran Night festivities. Lee joined former St. Olaf pitcher the Rev. Charlie Ruud, with the pair dressed in costume as historical husband and wife duo Martin Luther <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":8233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-winter-2017"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}