{"id":36436,"date":"2013-11-28T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=36436"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:51:52","slug":"practicing-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=36436","title":{"rendered":"Practicing on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36437\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=36437\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36437\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36437\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36437\" alt=\"Arroyo HC Jim Singiser getting his troops ready on Thanksgiving \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THANKSGIVING-ARR-11-28-13-009-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arroyo HC Jim Singiser getting his troops ready on Thanksgiving<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>(El Monte) &#8211;\u00a0Most people don&#8217;t like working on holidays. But if you&#8217;re a\u00a0high school football player or coach, you\u00a0enjoy working on Thanksgiving.\u00a0It means\u00a0you&#8217;ve accomplished something, have advanced to the next level, heck it means you&#8217;re still playing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36438\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=36438\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36438\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36438\" alt=\"This guy is ready to go \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THANKSGIVING-ARR-11-28-13-006-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This guy is ready to go<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year\u00a0Arroyo, by virtue of a 28-14 win over Schurr last week, has advanced to the semi finals\u00a0and earned the right to practice on Thanksgiving. For the Knights it&#8217;s the first time they\u00a0have been to the semis since\u00a02004. They will face San Dimas, who defeated\u00a0San Marino last week 56-28.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36439\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=36439\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36439\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36439\" alt=\"OL Coach Kenny Andrew...what's with the hair? \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THANKSGIVING-ARR-11-28-13-011-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OL Coach Kenny Andrew&#8230;what&#8217;s with the hair?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other\u00a0teams on the practice field for Turkey Day\u00a0are Paraclete and Monrovia in the Mid-Valley, Norwalk, Muir, La Serna and Burbank in the Southeast and Nordhoff, Bishop Diego, Oak Park and El Segundo in the Northwest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36440\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=36440\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36440\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36440\" alt=\"This is cool but where's the turkey and mashed potatoes? \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THANKSGIVING-ARR-11-28-13-001-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is cool but where&#8217;s the turkey and mashed potatoes?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_36441\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=36441\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36441\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36441\" alt=\"Trying to figure out the Wing Z \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THANKSGIVING-ARR-11-28-13-003-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trying to figure out the Wing Z<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_36442\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=36442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36442\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36442\" alt=\"ARROYO \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THANKSGIVING-ARR-11-28-13-014-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listening to instructions on how to knock off San Dimas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(El Monte) &#8211;\u00a0Most people don&#8217;t like working on holidays. But if you&#8217;re a\u00a0high school football player or coach, you\u00a0enjoy working on Thanksgiving.\u00a0It means\u00a0you&#8217;ve accomplished something, have advanced to the next level, heck it means you&#8217;re still playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59339,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436\/revisions\/59339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}