{"id":1198,"date":"2008-06-29T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/06\/29\/happy-trails-uga-vi\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T12:02:32","slug":"happy-trails-uga-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/06\/29\/happy-trails-uga-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails Uga VI."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/sports\/college\/photos\/ugavi.jpg\" alt=\"UGA VI\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Uga VI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/wireless\/content\/sports\/uga\/stories\/2008\/06\/28\/ugamascot_0629.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/wireless\/content\/sports\/uga\/stories\/2008\/06\/28\/ugamascot_0629.html', 'passed away');\" target=\"new\">passed away<\/a> last night, bringing to an end a most remarkable career as Georgia\u2019s top Dawg.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Damon Evans, UGA athletics director, bestowed the highest praise on the beast that he could Saturday, in a statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUga VI was a damn good mascot and a damn good dog,\u201d said Evans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said.  God speed Uga VI.<\/p>\n<p>As an addendum, Part 2 if you will, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/sports\/story\/358570.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/sports\/story\/358570.html', 'Columbus Ledger-Enquirer');\" target=\"new\">Columbus Ledger-Enquirer<\/a> has an interesting bit on Uga\u2019s Columbus connection.  For those keeping score at home, the current Uga line began Dec 2, 1955 in Columbus, GA with the birth of Uga I.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uga VI passed away last night, bringing to an end a most remarkable career as Georgia\u2019s top Dawg. Damon Evans, UGA athletics director, bestowed the highest praise on the beast that he could Saturday, in a statement: \u201cUga VI was a damn good mascot and a damn good dog,\u201d said Evans. Well said. God speed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/06\/29\/happy-trails-uga-vi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails Uga VI.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}