{"id":2386,"date":"2015-10-23T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2017-12-02T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:22:12","slug":"bangor-mi-high-school-viking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"Bangor, MI High School Viking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Well, this was quite some find.\u00a0 I knew about this Viking from a report on Roadside America.\u00a0 We found our way to Bangor, MI High School, only to find that this guy stood\u00a0past the end zone of the football field.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was a fence around the entire athletic complex.\u00a0 Not to be deterred I went into the school office and made my case.\u00a0 Fortunately, my plea fell on sympathetic ears.\u00a0 One of the administrative assistants was kind enough to find the keys to the field and walked out to allow us\u00a0access to the field.\u00a0 My regret is that I did not write her name down assuming I would be able to remember it.\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 If anyone sees this post and knows this woman please send me a note at &#8220;jim.hejl@jimsbigthings.com&#8221; <em><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/em> I did hear from the Superintendent of Bangor Public Schools, Dennis P. Paquette and he let me know the kindly person who walked us out to the field was Melissa Quinn, Assistant to the Athletic Director.<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_2387\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2387\" data-attachment-id=\"2387\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=2387\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?fit=1695%2C2870\" data-orig-size=\"1695,2870\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445606485&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00055309734513274&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bangor HS Viking\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;15viking &#8211; IMG_0845&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bangor HS Viking&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?fit=145%2C246\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?fit=494%2C836\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?resize=177%2C300\" alt=\"viking\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?resize=177%2C300 177w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?resize=605%2C1024 605w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?resize=89%2C150 89w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?w=1695 1695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15viking.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bangor HS Viking<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this was quite some find.\u00a0 I knew about this Viking from a report on Roadside America.\u00a0 We found our way to Bangor, MI High School, only to find that this guy stood\u00a0past the end zone of the football field.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was a fence around the entire athletic complex.\u00a0 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2386\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[45,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-Cu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}