{"id":139,"date":"2016-09-30T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:50:49","slug":"herty-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/herty-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Herty Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-141 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n\" width=\"304\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n-863x647.jpg 863w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n-144x108.jpg 144w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/14269630_10210707941517831_1709679102_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Herty Field was the site of the University Georgia&#8217;s sports events most notably baseball and football. The first intercollegiate football game in the South was played here again Mercer University. It was a win for Georgia and began the University&#8217;s long tradition of excellence in the sport. After going through a couple of different incarnations as a practice field and then a parking lot, the field was commemorated to\u00a0the founder of the football team and chemistry professor, Dr. Charles Herty.\u00a0Herty&#8217;s accomplishments aside from the elevation of sports for the institution include the establishment of the papermaking industry in the South, saving the longleaf pine from extinction in the region, playing a founding role in the National Institute of Health, and serving as President of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herty Field was the site of the University Georgia&#8217;s sports events most notably baseball and football. The first intercollegiate football game in the South was played here again Mercer University. It was a win for Georgia and began the University&#8217;s long tradition of excellence in the sport. After going through a couple of different incarnations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/herty-field\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Herty Field<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}