{"id":2398,"date":"2023-11-24T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:03:05","slug":"james-marcus-lindy-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/1998\/james-marcus-lindy-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marcus \u201cLindy\u201d Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Marcus \u201cLindy\u201d Hood was born July 30, 1907 in Collinsville. High school multi-sport star and salutatorian of his senior class. He went to University of Alabama to play football. But it was in basketball that he earned a place in sports history. He was the first player at Alabama to earn All American honors. He also lettered in football, baseball and track. He set a discus record in track. Lindy got his nickname while on a basketball trip to New Orleans to play Tulane. He entered a hotel lobby where a crowd was waiting on the arrival of the world-famous Charles Lindbergh. The crowd mistook Hood for the celebrity aviator and mobbed him. After that he was always \u201cLindy\u201d Hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Marcus \u201cLindy\u201d Hood was born July 30, 1907 in Collinsville. High school multi-sport star and salutatorian of his senior class. He went to University of Alabama to play football. But it was in basketball that he earned a place in sports history. He was the first player at Alabama to earn All American honors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}