{"id":1532,"date":"2013-01-03T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2013-01-03T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:23:58","slug":"alumni-spotlight-samantha-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Samantha Ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?attachment_id=1533\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bilde.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"640,455\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bilde\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bilde.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bilde.jpeg\" alt=\"bilde\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bilde.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bilde-300x213.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nDid you know a Liberty Alum replaced Erin Andrews for ESPN College Gameday? Ponder graduated from Liberty University in 2009, where she worked as a sideline reporter during Liberty&#8217;s football, men&#8217;s basketball and women&#8217;s basketball television broadcasts. She married Minnesota Vikings quarterback, Christian Ponder, on December 17, 2012. She&#8217;ll be headlining the National Championship Game on January 7th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know a Liberty Alum replaced Erin Andrews for ESPN College Gameday? Ponder graduated from Liberty University in 2009, where she worked as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1532\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Samantha Ponder<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1533,"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-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bilde.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}