{"id":57520,"date":"2017-02-10T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57520"},"modified":"2017-02-10T22:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:59:41","slug":"san-gabriels-arthur-brown-is-playing-professionally-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57520","title":{"rendered":"San Gabriel&#8217;s Arthur Brown Playing Professionally in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57523\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=57523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57523\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/arthur-brown-3.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Gabriel Matador Arthur Brown is doing his thing in Serbia \" width=\"546\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/arthur-brown-3.jpg 546w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/arthur-brown-3-70x63.jpg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/arthur-brown-3-332x300.jpg 332w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/arthur-brown-3-150x135.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Gabriel Matador Arthur Brown is doing his thing in Serbia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Former\u00a0San Gabriel running back Arthur Brown\u00a0is playing professionally.\u00a0No it&#8217;s not the NFL, CFL or even the\u00a0Arena Football League\u00a0but instead\u00a0he&#8217;s in Serbia playing for\u00a0Sirmium Legionaries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After graduating from San Gabriel, Brown\u00a0continued his football career in college playing four years at\u00a0Dakota Wesleyan.\u00a0After college\u00a0Brown didn&#8217;t want this football career to end.\u00a0After pursuing different opportunities Brown landed on the roster of\u00a0Sirmium Legionaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Sirmium Legionaries\u00a0is the oldest American football\u00a0team in Serbia, founded in 2002 in Sremska Mitrovica.\u00a0The team grew quickly becoming one of the most organized and successful clubs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Sremska Mitrovica\u00a0the home town of the Legionaries, has historical roots in the Roman\u00a0period. This led to the club name (they were brave and fearless Roman soldiers).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson Former\u00a0San Gabriel running back Arthur Brown\u00a0is playing professionally.\u00a0No it&#8217;s not the NFL, CFL or even the\u00a0Arena Football League\u00a0but instead\u00a0he&#8217;s in Serbia playing for\u00a0Sirmium Legionaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[526,9441,6741,12628],"class_list":["post-57520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-brown","tag-dakota-wesleyan-football","tag-san-gabriel-football","tag-sirmium-legionaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57520","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57530,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57520\/revisions\/57530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}