{"id":16184,"date":"2010-06-05T20:50:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T03:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2010-06-05T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T04:01:17","slug":"kevin-pearce-gets-a-hometown-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16184","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Pearce Gets A Hometown Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ALeqM5jGy6oPzwUUFvTEn9Fw_en9F5nihQ.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ALeqM5jGy6oPzwUUFvTEn9Fw_en9F5nihQ.jpeg','popup','width=512,height=335,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ALeqM5jGy6oPzwUUFvTEn9Fw_en9F5nihQ-tm.jpg\" height=\"281\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Aleqm5Jgy6Opzwuufvten9Fw En9F5Nihq\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norwich, Vermont packed the streets today June 5, 2010 as they officially welcomed <strong>Kevin Pearce<\/strong> home, according to a story from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iPDvJWAWCB2rmHkSl70aigc2F5XQD9G5CA200\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walking gingerly but on his own, Pearce hugged his friends and well-wishers, threw T-shirts to children and thanked anyone who would listen for rallying to his side. . . &#8220;I&#8217;d just like to say thank you you guys so much for everything you&#8217;ve done for me, and it&#8217;s just so incredible how helpful it&#8217;s been to me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Thank you all so much.&#8221; . . . Fire trucks blew their horns, hand-lettered signs saying &#8220;Kevin is Home&#8221; and &#8220;KP Our Hometown Hero&#8221; adorned a white clapboard gazebo and Town Recreation Director Jill Kearney presented him with a baseball cap and golf shirt in a ceremony that drew about 200 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite a lot to go through for a golf shirt, but we know KP was stoked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iPDvJWAWCB2rmHkSl70aigc2F5XQD9G5CA200\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwich, Vermont packed the streets today June 5, 2010 as they officially welcomed Kevin Pearce home, according to a story from the Associated Press. Walking gingerly but on his own, Pearce hugged his friends and well-wishers, threw T-shirts to children and thanked anyone who would listen for rallying to his side. . . &#8220;I&#8217;d just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16186,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions\/16186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}