{"id":206,"date":"2016-08-22T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T01:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-08-22T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T01:04:16","slug":"sandusky-scandal-at-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/sandusky-scandal-at-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandusky Scandal at Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2011, I was a junior in high school. The news about Jerry Sandusky rocked the news world and it was hard to comprehend. It was hard to comprehend how a scandal of this magnitude could happen and to children. I just remember feeling sick at the thought.<\/p>\n

The quote from The Patriot News: \u201cI\u2019m infuriated that people would not report something like that,\u201d she said. \u201cI still can\u2019t believe it. I\u2019m appalled. I\u2019m shocked. I\u2019m stunned. There\u2019s so many words. I\u2019m very mad. They could have prevented this from happening,\u201d wraps up the sentiment of how I reflect back on the Sandusky Scandal. It is disheartening that the truth took so long to come out and how many people missed the opportunity to come clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2011, I was a junior in high school. The news about Jerry Sandusky rocked the news world and it was hard to comprehend. It was hard to comprehend how a scandal of this magnitude could happen and to children. I just remember feeling sick at the thought. The quote from The Patriot News: \u201cI\u2019m … Continue reading Sandusky Scandal at Penn State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1","tag-psu"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MY21-3k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/a-look-back-at-the-jerry-sandusky-scandal-at-penn-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":0},"title":"A look back at the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State","author":"Jordan Hill","date":"August 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t remember exactly how I heard about the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State, but I know I immediately took notice of the situation. 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