{"id":1302,"date":"2012-09-04T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2012-09-04T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:51:51","slug":"flames-gill-takes-bereavement-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Flames&#8217; Gill takes bereavement leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty University football team will do most of its preparation for Saturday&#8217;s home opener against Norfolk State without its new head coach, Turner Gill.<\/p>\n<p>Gill&#8217;s mother, 75-year-old Hattie Gill, died unexpectedly on Sunday. Gill has taken a bereavement leave to return to his family&#8217;s home in Fort Worth, Texas. He departed this morning and is expected to rejoin the Flames in time to coach Saturday&#8217;s 7 p.m. game against the Spartans.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant head coach Carl Torbush and defensive coordinator Robert Wimberly will handle the head coach&#8217;s responsibilities, as well as their own, in Gill&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2012\/sep\/04\/flames-gill-takes-bereavement-leave-ar-2175656\/\" target=\"_blank\">Times Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty University football team will do most of its preparation for Saturday&#8217;s home opener against Norfolk State without its new head coach, Turner Gill.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1302\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flames&#8217; Gill takes bereavement leave<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-l0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}