{"id":3561,"date":"2018-02-09T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2018-02-09T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:52:15","slug":"happy-valentines-day-from-the-field-jillian-and-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day From the Field: Jillian and Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Aeryn McMurtry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Junior Jillian Barnard and senior Marshall Hodge make up one of RC\u2019s most friendly and sporty couples. They met two and a half years ago during soccer preseason before regular move-in their first year at the college and have been together ever since. Barnard and Hodge both play soccer for the Maroons, and though they specialize in different positions, watching each other play has made them both think outside the box and try new things on the field. \u201cOne of the most important parts about playing a sport is constantly trying to improve yourself, even during the off-season, and Jillian keeps me motivated to be better,\u201d Hodge said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aside from soccer and classes, Barnard and Hodge are both RA\u2019s on campus, meaning they have consistently busy schedules. \u201cWe aren\u2019t always interacting, but knowing that that person is there and we\u2019re accomplishing whatever task we need to gives me a sense of security,\u201d Barnard says. During the offseason in spring, Barnard and Hodge get an extra hour of downtime and enjoy spending it together watching Netflix, grabbing coffee, and doing activities around campus. \u201cWhen we aren\u2019t being lazy, we like to do typical Roanoke College things like go to Mill Mountain and check out different events on campus like basketball games and the Amanda Knox speech,\u201d says Hodge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Happy Valentine\u2019s Day to all the couples on campus and a special Happy Valentine\u2019s to Jillian and Marshall!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Aeryn McMurtry Junior Jillian Barnard and senior Marshall Hodge make up one of RC\u2019s most friendly and sporty couples. They met two and a half years ago during soccer preseason before regular move-in their first year at the college and have been together ever since. Barnard and Hodge both play soccer for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/jillian-2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}