{"id":67235,"date":"2012-10-15T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=67235"},"modified":"2014-06-09T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:27:19","slug":"uconn-celebrates-basketballs-first-night-with-acrobatic-athletics-and-pyrotechnics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/10\/uconn-celebrates-basketballs-first-night-with-acrobatic-athletics-and-pyrotechnics\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Celebrates Basketball&#8217;s &#8216;First Night&#8217; With Acrobatic Athletics and Pyrotechnics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[flickr-gallery id= 72157631775361084]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67242\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/FirstNight121012a014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67242 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"First Night 2012 - featured new\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/FirstNight121012a014.jpg\" alt=\"Men's Basketball Head Coach Kevin Ollie speaks with members of the media before the First Night show at Gampel Pavilion on Oct. 12, 2012. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/FirstNight121012a014.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/FirstNight121012a014-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/FirstNight121012a014-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 630px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 630\/420;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach Kevin Ollie speaks with members of the media before the First Night show at Gampel Pavilion on Oct. 12, 2012. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn&#8217;s Basketball First Night is a chance for both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams to entertain their fellow students while demonstrating some extra-entertaining moves on the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":67233,"comment_status":"open","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":[69,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-67235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 17:56:03","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\/67235","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67504,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235\/revisions\/67504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/67233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67235"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=67235"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=67235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}