{"id":1934,"date":"2014-09-18T02:58:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2014-09-18T02:59:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:59:08","slug":"homecoming-queen-plays-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/09\/18\/homecoming-queen-plays-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi high school homecoming queen plays football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFemales playing football against males is a rarity, which is why we always take a moment to write about one each season.<\/p>\n

Mary Kate Smith will be crowned homecoming queen of South Jones High School in Mississippi on Sept. 26 and a few minutes later she will take off her dress and squeeze into a football uniform.<\/p>\n

Smith is the teams kicker, a skill she picked up from playing soccer for numerous years. The 17-year-old also offered a little fashion advice for others trying to look good in their uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve figured out how to adjust my pants and belt so it makes my legs look longer (that\u2019s always a plus), and I love the dark blue color of my jersey because it brings out my eyes,\u201d she told Yahoo Style<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Make no mistake, Smith is not a tomboy. In fact she loves shopping and even years jewelry to practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy teammates always mess with me about being so girly because a lot of times I\u2019ll wear my rings and earring and necklaces to practice,\u201d she says. \u201cI just tell them I\u2019m practicing with style!\u201d <\/p>\n

Hey whatever gets the football through the uprights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Females playing football against males is a rarity, which is why we always take a moment to write about one each season. Mary Kate Smith will be crowned homecoming queen of South Jones High School in Mississippi on Sept. 26 and a few minutes later she will take off her dress and squeeze into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}