{"id":468,"date":"2014-03-25T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/?p=468"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T13:00:45","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/2014\/03\/25\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. \u00a0Rabid college basketball fans are obsessing over their bracket picks and following every game in the NCAA basketball tournament. \u00a0As a freshman at Messiah Bible College, Ernest L. Boyer played guard for the varsity basketball team. \u00a0The team ended the season with four wins and one loss. \u00a0Their opponents? \u00a0Various alumni from Grantham, Carlisle, Franklin, and Lancaster. Judging from the photo below it seems Boyer specialized in defense.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_477\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_guarding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-477 \" title=\"Ernie Boyer - a defensive specialist.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_guarding-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernie Boyer - a defensive specialist.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_478\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_and-bball-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-478\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-478\" title=\"Ernie Boyer (bottom row, first on the left) with his intramural basketball team.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_and-bball-team-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_and-bball-team-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_and-bball-team-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/03\/elb_and-bball-team.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernie Boyer (bottom row, first on the left) with his intramural basketball team.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. \u00a0Rabid college basketball fans are obsessing over their bracket picks and following every game in the NCAA basketball tournament. \u00a0As a freshman at Messiah Bible College, Ernest L. Boyer played guard for the varsity basketball team. \u00a0The team ended the season with four wins and one loss. \u00a0Their opponents? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[814],"tags":[265,1306,1372,5416,1414,1413,1415],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messiah-college","tag-basketball","tag-ernest-l-boyer","tag-messiah-bible-college","tag-messiah-college","tag-national-collegiate-athletic-association","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}