{"id":843,"date":"2010-04-08T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:12:27","slug":"soul-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Soul of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_845\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-845\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rsimmons-laxconvo-syrstage11.jpg\" alt=\"Former Syracuse University Lacrosse Player and Coach Roy Simmons, Jr.\" width=\"329\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rsimmons-laxconvo-syrstage11.jpg 329w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rsimmons-laxconvo-syrstage11-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Syracuse University Lacrosse Player and Coach Roy Simmons, Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Turtle Clan Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, who was an all-American Lacrosse goalkeeper at Syracuse University, along with Professor Philip Arnold, former SU lacrosse\/football star\u00a0(and NFL player) Jim Ridlon and former SU lacrosse coach Roy Simmons, Jr. discussed the history, progression and sportsmanship of lacrosse earlier this week at Syracuse Stage.<\/p>\n<p>They appeared as part of the Onondaga Land Rights &amp; Our Common Future Educational series coordinated by Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation.\u00a0 Lyons talked about classic battle\u00a0with Mohawk players and playing with broken ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Simmons insisted that\u00a0lacrosse is a gentleman&#8217;s game, not a savage game. He\u00a0also talked about the evolution of the lacrosse stick from being made with wood\u00a0and animal gut\u00a0to the more modern\u00a0kevlar and nylon version.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_895\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Lacrosse Discussion: Lyons, Arnold, Simmons and Ridlon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lacrosse-conv-syrstage-wide.jpg\" alt=\"Lacrosse Discussion: Lyons, Arnold, Simmons and Ridlon\" width=\"432\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lacrosse-conv-syrstage-wide.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lacrosse-conv-syrstage-wide-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lacrosse Discussion: Lyons, Arnold, Simmons and Ridlon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turtle Clan Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, who was an all-American Lacrosse goalkeeper at Syracuse University, along with Professor Philip Arnold, former SU lacrosse\/football star\u00a0(and NFL player) Jim Ridlon and former SU lacrosse coach Roy Simmons, Jr. discussed the history, progression and sportsmanship of lacrosse earlier this week at Syracuse Stage. They appeared as part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19],"tags":[752,919,923,910,918,912,908,920,921,914,916,911,913,909,915,70,64,924,922,917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22920,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}