{"id":34700,"date":"2019-01-07T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34700"},"modified":"2019-01-07T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:24:00","slug":"injured-dallas-cowboy-earns-a-new-bff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34700","title":{"rendered":"Injured Dallas Cowboy earns a new BFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/letter-to-allen-hurns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34701\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/letter-to-allen-hurns-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/letter-to-allen-hurns-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/letter-to-allen-hurns.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting late in the day and I&#8217;m feeling a bit sentimental, so I want to share this bit of good tiding with you.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Hurns, a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, suffered a gruesome injury Saturday during the Cowboys&#8217; pro football playoff win over the Seattle Seahawks. His ankle snapped; it was an ugly sight to see on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-year-old Luke McSwain of Frisco watched it in real time along with his family and penned a letter to Hurns, wishing him well and expressing hope that he recovers fully from the hideous injury. Luke wrote:\u00a0<em>\u201cI saw the Cowboys Seahawks game last night. I saw you get hurt. I prayed 4 times for you. You will get way <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">better<\/span><\/span> shortly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hurns heard about the letter and then Face Timed young Luke to say &#8220;hello&#8221; and thank him for the youngster&#8217;s good wishes. Hurns&#8217; gesture to the young fan made the young fan&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p>Hurns promised to send Luke a Dallas Cowboys&#8217; trading card to add to his collection. Luke&#8217;s mother, Kim, said her son will continue to pray for Hurns&#8217; recovery.<\/p>\n<p>This, I believe, is how professional athletes become positive role models for young fans. Well done, Allen Hurns. And to you as well, Luke McSwain.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting late in the day and I&#8217;m feeling a bit sentimental, so I want to share this bit of good tiding with you. Allen Hurns, a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, suffered a gruesome injury Saturday during the Cowboys&#8217; pro football playoff win over the Seattle Seahawks. His ankle snapped; it was an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Injured Dallas Cowboy earns a new BFF<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[1241,3302,3749],"class_list":["post-34700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-nfl","tag-pro-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34702,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions\/34702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}