{"id":2996,"date":"2009-10-27T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/espn-features-lbsu-s-dan-monson-on-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T05:40:00","slug":"espn-features-lbsu-s-dan-monson-on-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/espn-features-lbsu-s-dan-monson-on-blog","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Features LBSU&#8217;s Dan Monson On Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ESPN&#8217;s Andy Katz penned (or typed) a nice lengthy feature on Long Beach State men&#8217;s basketball coach Dan Monson yesterday.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Katz quotes Monson saying that in Long Beach, he &#8220;enjoys life again.&#8221;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The piece covers Monson&#8217;s journey from Gonzaga to the University of Minnesota, to Long Beach.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Since coming to the Beach, Monson tells Katz that &#8220;I enjoy going to work every day; that&#8217;s the main thing that&#8217;s different now.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I don&#8217;t care about the money or the league. I enjoy life again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Perhaps this piece will silence the nonstop rumors\u2014largely fueled by the Press Telegram&#8217;s Doug Krikorian\u2014that Monson wants to jump ship from LBSU as quickly as he can find a higher-paying gig.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Of course, he&#8217;s not telling Katz anything he hasn&#8217;t said before, so who knows?<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/blog\/index?entryID=4595617&#038;name=katz_andy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can read the story by clicking here.<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Andy Katz penned (or typed) a nice lengthy feature on Long Beach State men&#8217;s basketball coach Dan Monson yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}