{"id":40598,"date":"2020-01-02T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40598"},"modified":"2020-01-02T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T02:39:07","slug":"rose-bowl-win-is-particularly-gratifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40598","title":{"rendered":"Rose Bowl win is particularly gratifying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=GoDucks%20%23RoseBowl%20%23JustinHerberg&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-Rose-Bowl-Oregon-Wisconsin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40599\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-Rose-Bowl-Oregon-Wisconsin-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-Rose-Bowl-Oregon-Wisconsin-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-Rose-Bowl-Oregon-Wisconsin.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Ducks won the Rose Bowl tonight. It was a thriller against Wisconsin. The Pac 12 representative beat the Big 10 rep in a game decided by a single point.<\/p>\n<p>I am an Oregon native who did not attend the University of Oregon, but who has rooted for the Ducks since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n<p>There is one aspect of this victory I find particularly poignant. It involves the quarterback for the Ducks, a young man named Justin Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>College football programs spend a lot of effort and money recruiting athletes from all over the country. Oregon is no different. Check out the roster and you see student-athletes from every state.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert grew up in Eugene, where the university is located. He talked often about watching the Ducks play football at Autzen Stadium. His dream was to play for the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>I mention that because it carries a significant meaning for me that a homegrown young man would choose to stay home to play college football while, I should add, completing his studies and earning his degree. As I understand it, Justin Herbert is an <em>academic<\/em> all-American in addition to being a stellar athlete.<\/p>\n<p>I am not trying to lionize this young man; he&#8217;s going to make a lot of money playing pro football. I only want to point out the joy I had tonight in watching a fellow native Oregonian lead his hometown team to an impressive college football victory over an excellent opponent.<\/p>\n<p>As they say in Eugene \u2026 <em>&#8220;go Ducks!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=GoDucks%20%23RoseBowl%20%23JustinHerberg&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon Ducks won the Rose Bowl tonight. It was a thriller against Wisconsin. The Pac 12 representative beat the Big 10 rep in a game decided by a single point. I am an Oregon native who did not attend the University of Oregon, but who has rooted for the Ducks since the beginning of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rose Bowl win is particularly gratifying<\/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":[17],"tags":[3440,4023],"class_list":["post-40598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-rose-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598","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=40598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40600,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions\/40600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}