{"id":1249,"date":"2009-05-04T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2009-05-04T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:25:15","slug":"vote-michael-johnson-for-us-olympic-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/05\/vote-michael-johnson-for-us-olympic-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Michael Johnson for U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/michaeljohnson-time-may09.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Johnson on cover of Time\" width=\"225\" height=\"296\" align=\"right\" \/>Former Baylor student-athlete Michael Johnson &#8212; widely considered the greatest long sprinter in the history of track and field &#8212; was announced last week as <a href=\"http:\/\/teamusa.org\/news\/article\/11996\" target=\"_blank\">a nominee for the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame<\/a>, and you can help him earn the honor.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is one of 15 HOF nominees, alongside Olympic legends like skier Picabo Street and the 1992 U.S. men&#8217;s basketball team. <a href=\"http:\/\/teamusa.org\/halloffame\/1\/hof_answers\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the ballot and vote for Michael!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Fame nomination comes shortly after Johnson was named the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drakerelays100.com\/news\/news04082009a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Drake Relays&#8217; Men&#8217;s Athlete of the Century<\/a> during the relays&#8217; 100th anniversary celebrations last month. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drake_Relays\" target=\"_blank\">The Drake Relays<\/a> are one of the biggest and oldest track and field meets in the country. At the 2009 running, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/c-track\/recaps\/042509aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Todd Harbour&#8217;s Bears won five titles<\/a>, including the program&#8217;s fifth-straight Drake Relays title in the men&#8217;s 4&#215;400-meter relay; Baylor has now won 18 of the last 21 titles at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Michael Johnson and Baylor track and field!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Baylor student-athlete Michael Johnson &#8212; widely considered the greatest long sprinter in the history of track and field &#8212; was announced last week as a nominee for the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, and you can help him earn the honor. Johnson is one of 15 HOF nominees, alongside Olympic legends like skier Picabo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}