{"id":7431,"date":"2014-12-22T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2014-12-22T07:27:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:27:36","slug":"talented-people-dancing-awkwardly-jmu-athletes-theyre-just-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7431","title":{"rendered":"Talented People Dancing Awkwardly. JMU Athletes, They&#8217;re Just Like Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Emqra6cqIp8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Christmas is my favorite time of year. The music, the decorations, the parties, I love it all. And while I recognize the true meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with gifts, they can be pretty great too. Especially when they come in the form of a video featuring both Jeff Bourne and Matt Brady getting loose. Loose is a relative term when it comes to Coach Brady by the way. Sure, the hoops team might have suffered a <a href=\"http:\/\/jmubballblog.weebly.com\/recent-news\/dukes-drop-to-the-panthers-80-71\">disappointing home loss to High Point<\/a> over the weekend, but it&#8217;s only one game. And we have this video to make us laugh. Curiously, there&#8217;s no footage of Everett Withers. Dudes don&#8217;t dance I guess.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7431&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>Christmas is my favorite time of year. The music, the decorations, the parties, I love it all. And while I recognize the true meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with gifts, they can be pretty great too. Especially when they come in the form of a video featuring both Jeff Bourne and Matt Brady [&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":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3692,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3692","url_meta":{"origin":7431,"position":0},"title":"JMU Retains Coach Brady","date":"March 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"By now you've probably heard that Matt Brady will be retained as JMU's head basketball coach. This morning we published a post stating that it's probably time for Brady to move on and then hours later Jeff Bourne says he's retaining him for next year. 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