{"id":190,"date":"2003-12-14T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:05:50","slug":"ben-olson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2003\/12\/ben-olson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Olson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you do not know the name Ben Olson, you are not a BYU football fan. A few years back, he was the No. 1 high school football prospect in the land, and he chose to attend BYU. After one year as a &#8220;redshirt&#8221; player (meaning that he did not use one of his years of college eligibility), Ben decided to go on a mission, and he was called to Canada. ESPN recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byucougars.com\/football\/filings\/0000004582_rel.html\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> about his mission. This is from the author of the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ben said something during our interview that stuck with me,&#8221; Wojciechowski said later. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Some things you pay a price to do, and you don&#8217;t count the consequences.&#8217; Ben isn&#8217;t counting the consequences this might have on his own playing career, or on the careers of others. I respect that sort of commitment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you do not know the name Ben Olson, you are not a BYU football fan. A few years back, he was the No. 1 high school football prospect in the land, and he chose to attend BYU. After one year as a &#8220;redshirt&#8221; player (meaning that he did not use one of his years of college eligibility), Ben decided to go on a mission, and he was called to Canada. ESPN recently published a story about his mission. This is from the author of the story: &#8220;Ben said something during our interview that stuck with me,&#8221; Wojciechowski said later. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Some things you pay a price to do, and you don&#8217;t count the consequences.&#8217; Ben isn&#8217;t counting the consequences this might have on his own playing career, or on the careers of others. I respect that sort of commitment.&#8221; Me, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}