{"id":5287,"date":"2013-04-08T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2013-04-08T21:18:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:18:46","slug":"jmu-is-home-to-some-very-smart-party-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5287","title":{"rendered":"JMU Is Home to Some Very Smart Party People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5289\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=5289\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?fit=990%2C1095&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"990,1095\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?fit=271%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?fit=925%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5289\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?resize=570%2C631\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?resize=925%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 925w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?resize=271%2C300&amp;ssl=1 271w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/enhanced-buzz-wide-11941-1365422825-17.jpg?w=990&amp;ssl=1 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jakel11\/the-smartest-party-schools-in-the-country\">Buzzfeed put together this graphic<\/a> showing the intersection of a school&#8217;s academic rigor (as judged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/top-colleges\/list\/#page:1_sort:0_direction:asc_search:_filter:All%20states\">Forbes<\/a>) and party friendliness (as judged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiestafrog.com\/blog\/\">some website<\/a> that just logged me as its oldest visitor ever). Not surprisingly JMU offers the best of both worlds. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s because half the student body hits the books while the other hits the bottle, or if JMU students can just do it all. Well done regardless.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5287&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Buzzfeed put together this graphic showing the intersection of a school&#8217;s academic rigor (as judged by Forbes) and party friendliness (as judged by some website that just logged me as its oldest visitor ever). Not surprisingly JMU offers the best of both worlds. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s because half the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":832,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=832","url_meta":{"origin":5287,"position":0},"title":"Cold Bats Doom the Dukes","date":"May 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Diamond Dukes took the CAA regular season crown by winning every conference series it played in. Unfortunately for the Dukes, their bats went cold and they lost 2 straight to be eliminated from the conference tourney. 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I'd be lying if I told you that I had watched a single woman's lacrosse game since graduating, but I did attempt to follow Saturday's game online.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Baseball&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lax-goalie-300x224.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}