{"id":291,"date":"2019-01-09T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:19:04","slug":"aint-nothin-less-important-than-the-halftime-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"“Ain’t nothin’ less important than the halftime score.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I am a proud graduate of Clemson University (B.S. in mathematics, class of ’68), and I’m very pleased, of course, with Clemson’s victory Monday night over Alabama.
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There’s a lesson in Head Coach Dabo Swinney’s comment at the end of the first half when Clemson was leading 31 – 16: “Ain’t nothin’ less important than the halftime score.” He was saying what I wrote in this blog on January 6<\/a>, quoting another head football coach Fisher DeBerry: “You’re only as good as your last play.” Dabo urged his team to come out in the second half with the same intensity as the first half and play like the score was 0 – 0. 
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Many of us want to rest on our laurels OR let our past poor behavior cloud our future. But Paul wrote, “Forgetting those things which are behind…” (Philippians 3.13). 
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Just go out and do the next right thing!<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a proud graduate of Clemson University (B.S. in mathematics, class of ’68), and I’m very pleased, of course, with Clemson’s victory Monday night over Alabama. There’s a lesson in Head Coach Dabo Swinney’s comment at the end of the first half when Clemson was leading 31 – 16: “Ain’t nothin’ less important than … Continue reading “Ain’t nothin’ less important than the halftime score.”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-4H","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}