{"id":37522,"date":"2015-10-27T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=37522"},"modified":"2015-10-27T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:50:30","slug":"james-chaney-returns-to-lehigh-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/10\/james-chaney-returns-to-lehigh-football\/","title":{"rendered":"James Chaney Returns<br> To Lehigh Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37208\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37208\" title=\"james chaney\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/james-chaney-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/james-chaney-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/james-chaney.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Chaney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>James Chaney\u00a0was back on the Lehigh football field Tuesday as the head coach of the Lightning, four weeks after being reassigned by the\u00a0Lee County School District\u00a0for a professional standards inquiry and five weeks since coaching his last game on the sideline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m happy to be back,\u201d said Chaney, whose one-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct on Sept. 11 against South Fort Myers preceded his larger absence as head coach. \u201cI&#8217;ve put all that behind me. And I just want to give these guys a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly\u00a0enough, Lehigh (2-5, 1-1)\u00a0is still in the hunt for a playoff position in District 6A-11. The winner of its game against\u00a0Estero\u00a0(2-6, 1-1) on Friday will move on to the postseason, which is something the Lightning hasn\u2019t accomplished since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they win, they&#8217;re in the playoffs,\u201d Chaney said. \u201cI&#8217;m telling them, if they prepare and practice hard and show up and be on time and play to the best of their ability, they can do well in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Chaney\u00a0was back on the Lehigh football field Tuesday as the head coach of the Lightning, four weeks after being reassigned by the\u00a0Lee County School District\u00a0for a professional standards inquiry&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}