{"id":1226,"date":"2018-02-03T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2018-02-03T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:25:06","slug":"mount-anthony-patriots-merge-with-pine-ridge-coyotes-to-become-the-peyotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/03\/mount-anthony-patriots-merge-with-pine-ridge-coyotes-to-become-the-peyotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Anthony Patriots Merge With Pine Ridge Coyotes to Become the Peyotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENNINGTON &#8211; Citing budget concerns and a steadily declining participation rate, Mount Anthony Union High School has decided to merge their football program with the defunct Pine Ridge High School located in Williston that has been closed for several years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis is a fantastic opportunity,\u201d said Mount Anthony head coach Robert Wasson. \u201cNobody knew what to do with the Pine Ridge stuff, and we needed something to bolster our program. We got a great deal, an influx of resources, some new players, and once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2018\/02\/02\/vpa-approves-football-co-op-burlington-south-burlington\/300658002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burlington and South Burlington merged<\/a>, we had precedent to do this. I\u2019ve loved coaching the Patriots, but I\u2019m excited to start coaching the Peyotes in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear just what was included in the deal, as Pine Ridge never had a football team, and any former students would have graduated years ago. The distance also would presumably be an issue, as the two schools are 120 miles apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not worried,\u201d Wasson said. \u201cThose are just details. The important thing is that, this coming fall, the Peyotes are going to blow your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>BENNINGTON &#8211; Citing budget concerns and a steadily declining participation rate, Mount Anthony Union High School has decided to merge their football program with the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/03\/mount-anthony-patriots-merge-with-pine-ridge-coyotes-to-become-the-peyotes\/\" title=\"Mount Anthony Patriots Merge With Pine Ridge Coyotes to Become the Peyotes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[38],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southern-vermont","tag-bennington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TWFI-2018_02_03.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-jM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}