{"id":603,"date":"2009-03-19T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/19\/north-country-native-makes-it-to-march-madness\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:31:00","slug":"north-country-native-makes-it-to-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/19\/north-country-native-makes-it-to-march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country native makes it to March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/tim_layden\/03\/18\/byu\/index.html\">Sports Illustrated is reporting<\/a> on Glens Falls native Jimmer Fredette&#8217;s cinderella run into the NCAA brackets, playing for Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fredette is from Glens Falls, New York, a very small city at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, four hours dead north of New York City, roughly three hours dead south of the Canadian border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, Fredette earned some big city street toughness playing against ballplayers incarcerated in one of the region&#8217;s state prisons.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Together T.J. and Jimmer played on teams that would scrimmage at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison 15 miles north of Glens Falls. Asked if it was intimidating, Fredette said, &#8220;The first time, it was.&#8221; (Of course it makes Utah on the road seems a lot less so).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fredette&#8217;s BYU squad plays Texas A&amp;M this afternoon at 12:30 pm eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Illustrated is reporting on Glens Falls native Jimmer Fredette&#8217;s cinderella run into the NCAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}