{"id":1125,"date":"2014-02-27T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2014-02-27T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:37:27","slug":"gracie-gold-accepts-prom-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/27\/gracie-gold-accepts-prom-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracie Gold accepts prom request"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1126\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1126\" alt=\"goldpettijohn\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/goldpettijohn.jpg\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/goldpettijohn.jpg 608w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/goldpettijohn-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Good Morning America\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">United States figure skater Gracie Gold has accepted Dyer Pettijohn&#8217;s request to attend his prom.<\/p>\n<p>Gold, 18, \u00a0left Sochi with a bronze medal in the team figure skating event and will now be trading in her ice skates for a pair of heels.<\/p>\n<p>Pettijohn made a emphatic plea for Gold to attend the prom with him in a YouTube video and it has paid off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cme-B1zrct0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night&#8217;s &#8220;Extra&#8221; Gold was surprised when the 17-year-old boy approached her with a bouquet of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gracie, would you go to prom with me?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it works out, I would love to,&#8221; Gold responded.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen these type of date both work and fall apart in the past. For what it is worth Dyer is excited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so happy that she has been so nice about everything, especially since she didn&#8217;t know I was surprising her,&#8221; Dyer wrote to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/gracie-gold-accepts-prom-date-offer-love-180321484--abc-news-celebrities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GoodMorningAmerica.com.<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;She is just as nice and kind (and gorgeous) on and off camera. She is a really down to Earth person.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States figure skater Gracie Gold has accepted Dyer Pettijohn&#8217;s request to attend his prom. Gold, 18, \u00a0left Sochi with a bronze medal in the team figure skating event and will now be trading in her ice skates for a pair of heels. Pettijohn made a emphatic plea for Gold to attend the prom with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,25],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-gracie-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}