{"id":273486,"date":"2010-02-03T20:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goforward.harpercollege.edu\/page.cfm?p=5654&newsid=953"},"modified":"2010-02-03T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T01:44:21","slug":"matt-battaglia-signs-letter-of-intent-with-niu-to-play-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273486","title":{"rendered":"Matt Battaglia Signs Letter of Intent with NIU to Play Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/goforward.harpercollege.edu\/uploaded\/athletics\/2009-10_General_Images\/battaglia_01.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Battaglia signs letter of intent with NIU\" height=\"240\" \/>Matt Battaglia (Freshman &#8211; Marist) today signed a letter of intent with Northern Illinois University&nbsp;where he&nbsp;will continue playing football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matt&#8217;s a great kid,&#8221; said Harper Head Coach Eric Waldstein, &#8220;He works every day at practice, in the weight room and the classroom where he has a 3.31 GPA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With great leadership,&nbsp;he was a solid, consistent lineman for us all year,&#8221; adds coach Waldstein. &#8220;With his attitude, work ethic and playing ability, Matt is the type of player every Division 1 school is looking for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Battaglia (Freshman &#8211; Marist) today signed a letter of intent with Northern Illinois University&nbsp;where he&nbsp;will continue playing football. &#8220;Matt&#8217;s a great kid,&#8221; said Harper Head Coach Eric Waldstein, &#8220;He works every day at practice, in the weight room and the classroom where he has a 3.31 GPA.&#8221; &#8220;With great leadership,&nbsp;he was a solid, consistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}