{"id":151,"date":"2007-09-14T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T15:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:29:22","slug":"on-tony-dungy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/on-tony-dungy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tony Dungy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching an NFL special on the 1978 Steelers and I heard Hall of Fame Steeler Defensive Back, Mel Blount say this: <em>In my 14 years in training camp I had never seen a player come through who understood the game and knew the game of football like Tony Dungy did.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having just listened to Tony&#8217;s memoirs, <em>Quiet Strength<\/em>, I would say that in my 20 years of pastoral ministry, I&#8217;ve never read a book by a sports celebrity who better understood his role as a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Buy it.  Read or listen to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching an NFL special on the 1978 Steelers and I heard Hall of Fame Steeler Defensive Back, Mel Blount say this: In my 14 years in training camp I had never seen a player come through who understood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/on-tony-dungy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[609],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-nfl","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-2r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}