{"id":1384,"date":"2019-03-27T04:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:20:31","slug":"worthy-cause-countdown-this-louisiana-track-team-needs-399-for-new-hurdles-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Worthy Cause Countdown: This Louisiana Track Team Needs $399 For New Hurdles&nbsp;[UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! \u00a0BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE\u00a0HERE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Franklinton High School in eastern Louisiana\u00a0has\u00a0a girls track team,\u00a0but no track. In lieu of a\u00a0quarter-mile asphalt oval, the team holds its practices either on the football field\u00a0or\u00a0the road around the school.<\/p>\n<p>Math teacher Andy Perez coaches the team, which he pulled out of debt through community fundraisers during his first season. He\u2019s known for taking the squad\u00a0out to\u00a0celebratory buffet dinners.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To prepare for the new season,\u00a0Perez is raising money to purchase hurdles.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0<strong>asking for your help<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The team needs $549 total. It\u2019s currently\u00a0<strong>$399 from the goal with\u00a016 days left<\/strong>. You can\u00a0<strong>donate here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Editor&rsquo;s note: Some projects listed on donorschoose.org have donations matched by Dick&rsquo;s Sporting Goods, which is a non-editorial presenting partner of GOOD Sports.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! \u00a0BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE\u00a0HERE. From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding. Franklinton High School in eastern Louisiana\u00a0has\u00a0a girls track team,\u00a0but no track. In lieu of a\u00a0quarter-mile asphalt oval, the team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}