{"id":1158,"date":"2016-07-04T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T16:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T16:20:55","slug":"bob-grimes-78-retires-as-nchs-softball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2016\/07\/04\/bob-grimes-78-retires-as-nchs-softball-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Grimes &#8217;78 Retires as NCHS Softball Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2016\/07\/573b955a0cb6e.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1161\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2016\/07\/573b955a0cb6e.image_-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"573b955a0cb6e.image\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2016\/07\/573b955a0cb6e.image_-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2016\/07\/573b955a0cb6e.image_-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2016\/07\/573b955a0cb6e.image_-1024x837.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2016\/07\/573b955a0cb6e.image_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bob Grimes is retiring at season&#8217;s end after fifteen highly successful years as Normal Community High School&#8217;s head coach. His record through Monday stands at 420-109-1 with one state championship (2007 Class AA), one state runner-up finish (2002 Class AA), nine Big 12 Conference championships, nine regional titles, three sectional crowns, and three state tournament appearances.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, you can go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/high-school\/normal-community\/happy-accident-retiring-nchs-coach-never-saw-softball-in-his\/article_fd2885bc-89ad-5d93-af1a-e71596addc5b.html\">Pantagraph article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Grimes is retiring at season&#8217;s end after fifteen highly successful years as Normal Community High School&#8217;s head coach. His record through Monday stands at 420-109-1 with one state championship (2007 Class AA), one state runner-up finish (2002 Class AA), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2016\/07\/04\/bob-grimes-78-retires-as-nchs-softball-coach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsletters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}