{"id":28209,"date":"2021-05-17T06:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28209"},"modified":"2021-05-17T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:33:01","slug":"local-university-catching-up-with-marquette-30-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/local-university-catching-up-with-marquette-30-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Local University Catching Up With Marquette 30 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2021\/05\/16\/evangel-university-seeks-new-mascot-name-nominations-due-monday\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Evangel University seeks new mascot name, nominations due Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mascot name is\/was the Crusaders.  Which, in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/crusade\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">original form<\/a> does mean a Christian warrior headed to liberate the Holy lands from infidels.  It&#8217;s non-religious meaning comes later, where everything is a crusade when it&#8217;s not the moral equivalent of war on something.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that with Warriors, which Marquette dropped in 1994.  I wrote about it for the school newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/CE\/eyes\/eyes06.htm\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in, what, 1992?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangel University seeks new mascot name, nominations due Monday. The mascot name is\/was the Crusaders. Which, in its original form does mean a Christian warrior headed to liberate the Holy lands from infidels. It&#8217;s non-religious meaning comes later, where everything is a crusade when it&#8217;s not the moral equivalent of war on something. Contrast that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28210,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28209\/revisions\/28210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}