{"id":195597,"date":"2023-03-31T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=195597"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:50:17","slug":"uconn-magazine-im-with-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/03\/uconn-magazine-im-with-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: I&#8217;m With the Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David L. Mills, director of the UConn Marching Band \u2014 known across the region as The Pride of Connecticut \u2014 retired at the conclusion of the 2022 season after 33 years at the helm. More than 600 alumni band members came out to the Homecoming football game at The Rent in celebration of Mills\u2019 impressive career as a music educator.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming weekend itself felt like a tribute to Mills, with scores of former band members filling alumni events to reminisce and celebrate his legacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2023\/02\/14\/im-with-the-band\/?utm_campaign=magazine_spring_2023&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of UConn Marching Band alums converged on the fall 2022 Homecoming weekend to give David L. Mills, longtime director, a proper send-off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":195599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-195597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 20:15:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195608,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195597\/revisions\/195608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/195599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195597"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=195597"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=195597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}