{"id":5536,"date":"2013-06-17T23:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2013-06-17T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T03:01:22","slug":"start-wearing-purple-coming-to-bridgeforth-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5536","title":{"rendered":"Start Wearing Purple, Coming to Bridgeforth This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5537\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=5537\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg?fit=720%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,960\" 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=\"BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;KSt. loves sloppy seconds!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg?fit=720%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5537\" title=\"BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg?resize=576%2C768\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BM-4N4MCYAA7AgL.jpg-large.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaks of all sorts have been big news recently. And while <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMUPepBand\/status\/346698244883111936\">this tweet from the JMU Pep Band<\/a>, might not have caused the same sort of social media frenzy that the Yeezus news did, it definitely had us grinning from ear to ear. Because it&#8217;s finally happening. The MRDs are working on an arrangement of Start Wearing Purple for the upcoming football season. That is all.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5536&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>Leaks of all sorts have been big news recently. And while this tweet from the JMU Pep Band, might not have caused the same sort of social media frenzy that the Yeezus news did, it definitely had us grinning from ear to ear. Because it&#8217;s finally happening. The MRDs are working on an arrangement of [&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":[7],"tags":[261],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3551,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3551","url_meta":{"origin":5536,"position":0},"title":"Start Wearing Purple","date":"January 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Todd has been one of a number of JMU fans clamoring for the school to adopt Gogol Bordello's \"Start Wearing Purple\" as some sort of unofficial theme song. I was a little late to the party, but finally jumped on the bandwagon prior to football season. 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Here are his thoughts on bleeding purple and how great we have it as JMU fans.\u00a0 I have been following JMU football since 2007 my oldest son entered JMU, and my youngest is in Grad School.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/543606bf3d4ca.image_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8103,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8103","url_meta":{"origin":5536,"position":3},"title":"Guide to Jumping on the JMU Dukes Bandwagon","date":"October 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The JMU\u00a0Dukes are 7-0, Saturday is Homecoming, and oh yeah, ESPN's College Gameday will be setting up shop on the Quad. This all adds up to thousands of people headed back to the 'burg to watch the Dukes take on the Ticks. 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