{"id":118,"date":"2012-10-15T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-10-15T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T21:20:29","slug":"female-quarterback-elected-home-coming-queeen-in-flordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2012\/10\/15\/female-quarterback-elected-home-coming-queeen-in-flordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Female quarterback elected homecoming queen in Florid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"ep\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=us\/2012\/10\/12\/fl-first-female-hs-quarterback-homecoming-queen.wfor\" \/><embed id=\"ep\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=us\/2012\/10\/12\/fl-first-female-hs-quarterback-homecoming-queen.wfor\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The story of Erin DiMeglio has gained national attention. DiMeglio became the first female quarterback to play in a varsity football game in the state of Florida. On Thursday night she was crowned Homecoming Queen at South Plantation High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was surprised, because a lot of girls at this school, they know a lot of people,\u201d DiMeglio said according to a CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2012\/10\/15\/first-female-quarterback-in-florida-history-named-homecoming-queen\/\">video<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cA lot of people know me more now cause I play football.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/erindemeglio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119\" title=\"erindemeglio\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/erindemeglio-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/erindemeglio-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/erindemeglio.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Be Recruited<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her mother watched the game from the sidelines. While Erin did not play in the game her school did earn an 18-0 victory over Hollywood Hills High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any better than that,\u201d Kathleen DiMeglio said<\/p>\n<p>. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of Erin for her determination and her follow through. She wanted to (play football) and she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver Hordly Seide was named Homecoming King. He considered it an honor. \u201cErin, she\u2019s not just my teammate, she\u2019s like my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiMeglio originally joined the football team in hopes of showing the University of Central Florida that she would be a good fit for their basketball program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Video Credit: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Erin DiMeglio has gained national attention. DiMeglio became the first female quarterback to play in a varsity football game in the state of Florida. On Thursday night she was crowned Homecoming Queen at South Plantation High School. \u201cI was surprised, because a lot of girls at this school, they know a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-back-page-featured","tag-erin-dimeglio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}