{"id":6919,"date":"2018-01-24T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2018-01-24T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:05:09","slug":"georgia-highlands-college-basketball-teams-raise-cancer-awareness-benefit-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2018\/01\/24\/georgia-highlands-college-basketball-teams-raise-cancer-awareness-benefit-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Highlands College basketball teams to raise cancer awareness with benefit game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Highlands College men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams will be playing to raise cancer awareness with a benefit game on February 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in Rome at the GHC gym. The women will start at 5:30 p.m. followed by the men at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit game is in honor of Dean of Natural Sciences and Physical Education Greg Ford\u2019s wife, Holly, who is currently battling cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Shirts can be ordered at all GHC locations in the business office. Proceeds from the shirt sales and the game ticket sales will go to cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>All the players will wear the shirts during warm-up, then all the cheerleaders and coaches will be wearing the shirts during the game. The players will additionally wear a teal wrist band with #FordStrong on it to honor Holly and to help raise cancer awareness.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase a shirt, please visit any GHC location\u2019s business office. Shirts must be ordered by January 29<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the game and GHC athletics, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/georgiahighlandscollege.pr-optout.com\/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8071%3e%26JDG%3c%3b0%3e0778%26SDG%3c90%3a.&amp;RE=MC&amp;RI=4858999&amp;Preview=False&amp;DistributionActionID=4861&amp;Action=Follow+Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ghcchargers.com\/landing\/index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Highlands College men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams will be playing to raise cancer awareness with a benefit game on February 7th\u00a0in Rome at the GHC gym. The women will start at 5:30 p.m. followed by the men at 7:30 p.m. The benefit game is in honor of Dean of Natural Sciences and Physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}