{"id":6773,"date":"2016-06-09T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T20:52:19","slug":"principal-paiges-80th-anniversary-series-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/principal-paiges-80th-anniversary-series-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal Paige\u2019s 80th Anniversary Series: 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bjornpaige.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/06\/1944\/\">Another great entry in Principal Paige\u2019s series on the history of San Dieguito<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This one is about the 1944 <em>Hoofprint<\/em>. A quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><div id=\"attachment_6774\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6774\" src=\"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shot-from-1944-Hoofprint-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Kids on tractor with teacher\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shot-from-1944-Hoofprint-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shot-from-1944-Hoofprint-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shot-from-1944-Hoofprint-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shot-from-1944-Hoofprint-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shot-from-1944-Hoofprint.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shot from the 1944 Hoofprint<\/p><\/div>As would be expected, World War II loomed large over San Dieguito in 1944, nine graduates enlisting that year. One of the names is now inscribed on the war memorial in front of campus.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because of this overshadowing reality, participation in athletics boomed in 1944, with record numbers joining the softball, baseball, and field hockey teams. Sports have always provided some respite from the worries of the world, and this is apparent in the yearbook. \u201cCoach Lambert started the basketball season with long, hard sessions of running, running, and running\u201d said one caption, and (in one of my favorite lines from any yearbook anywhere) \u201cDon\u2019t forget Ida Lou and the other baffled guards who were always trying to keep up with Pokey and Doris.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great entry in Principal Paige\u2019s series on the history of San Dieguito. This one is about the 1944 Hoofprint. A quote: As would be expected, World War II loomed large over San Dieguito in 1944, nine graduates enlisting that year. One of the names is now inscribed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}