{"id":7797,"date":"2011-12-11T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2011-12-11T02:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T07:42:50","slug":"unbelievably-believable-robert-griffin-iii-wins-2011-heisman-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/12\/unbelievably-believable-robert-griffin-iii-wins-2011-heisman-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"First reaction: Robert Griffin III wins 2011 Heisman Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"rg3heisman-dec11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/rg3heisman-dec11.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Griffin III with the Heisman Trophy\" width=\"225\" height=\"307\" \/>It&#8217;s gonna take some time for this to soak in: <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/7339011\/robert-griffin-iii-baylor-bears-wins-77th-heisman-trophy\" target=\"_blank\">The best college football player in the nation is a Baylor Bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Junior quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/121011aac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Griffin III was awarded the 2011 Heisman Trophy<\/a> Saturday night, and it wasn&#8217;t particularly close. RG3 received 407 first-place votes, easily outdistancing preseason favorite Andrew Luck and the other three finalists.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have plenty more coverage Monday or Tuesday, with all kinds of links, stories, photos, videos and more. For tonight, we will celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, RG3!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gonna take some time for this to soak in: The best college football player in the nation is a Baylor Bear. Junior quarterback Robert Griffin III was awarded the 2011 Heisman Trophy Saturday night, and it wasn&#8217;t particularly close. RG3 received 407 first-place votes, easily outdistancing preseason favorite Andrew Luck and the other three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}