{"id":14472,"date":"2016-06-15T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=14472"},"modified":"2016-06-15T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:33:09","slug":"burgy-esus-number-one-fan-retires-after-eight-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/burgy-esus-number-one-fan-retires-after-eight-years-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Burgy, ESUs Number One Fan Retires After Eight Years of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years of service to East Stroudsburg University as the Number One Fan of Warrior Athletics, Burgy has announced his official retirement effective Friday, June 10.<\/p>\n<p>Burgy\u2019s arrival was celebrated by the ESU campus community during Homecoming in October, 2008, and his mission was to: continue the rich traditions of the university through good will among all, support community service for others, and inspire a winning season year after year.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s opting to leave his den beneath Eiler Martin Stadium to join members of the bear family in the natural habitat near Fairbanks, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he\u2019ll miss most, Burgy\u2019s response was ESU students, the Warrior Fight Song, guest appearances both on and off campus and food from ESU\u2019s concession stands.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured here with Burgy is Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., president of East Stroudsburg University, who presented him with a retirement timepiece as a memento of his time at ESU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years of service to East Stroudsburg University as the Number One Fan of Warrior Athletics, Burgy has announced his official retirement effective Friday, June 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newshide\">Burgy\u2019s arrival was celebrated by the ESU campus community during Homecoming in October, 2008, and his mission was to: continue the rich traditions of the university through good will among all, support community service for others, and inspire a winning season year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,22,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14478,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14472\/revisions\/14478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}