{"id":982,"date":"2023-09-30T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/?p=982"},"modified":"2023-09-30T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:45:08","slug":"romance-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/romance-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance \/ Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In 1985 I&#8217;d bought a Gumby doll in a novelty store at the end of W Broad St to hang on the drum carrier under my Redcoat jacket. Gumby faithfully rode on my chest throughout the &#8217;85 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We didn&#8217;t get to travel to the bowl game that year &#8211; the Sun Bowl v. Arizona in El Paso &#8211; so our last game of the season was versus Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After the final game, for whatever reason, I gave Gumby to Paige as a memento of what would be our only UGA football season together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When we began dating after Vince Dooley&#8217;s last game at the Jan 1 Gator Bowl 1989, she asked if I remembered Gumby &amp; pulled him out of a storage box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He still lives in our garage. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We dated, married, volunteered for the Redcoats for 25+ years, and raised two future Redcoats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/girls_n_marcJimPaige-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/girls_n_marcJimPaige-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/girls_n_marcJimPaige-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/girls_n_marcJimPaige-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/girls_n_marcJimPaige-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/girls_n_marcJimPaige-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1985 I&#8217;d bought a Gumby doll in a novelty store at the end of W Broad St to hang on the drum carrier under my Redcoat jacket. Gumby faithfully rode on my chest throughout the &#8217;85 season. We didn&#8217;t get to travel to the bowl game that year &#8211; the Sun Bowl v. Arizona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legacy","category-photos","category-romances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redcoatalumniband.com\/50th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}