{"id":14059,"date":"2015-09-02T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:00:22","slug":"christening-the-patrick-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/christening-the-patrick-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Christening the Patrick Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lifelong-PatrickAndersonBoat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-featured_large wp-image-13892\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lifelong-PatrickAndersonBoat-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"Lifelong-PatrickAndersonBoat\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/Lifelong-PatrickAndersonBoat-800x630.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/Lifelong-PatrickAndersonBoat-162x128.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>This spring, a new crew boat hit the water at Clemson, thanks to the generosity of the family and friends of the late Patrick Anderson \u201907. Anderson, who passed away last summer, was a member of the rowing club, and family and friends contributed funds in his memory to purchase a new crew boat. The boat was christened the Patrick Anderson before it was used in a race against the University of Georgia.<br \/>\nCrew team member Patrick Essex described the race: \u201cWe had a spectacular final race in the Patrick Anderson.\u00a0We came back from nearly half of a boat-length behind in the last 250 meters of the race to beat UGA by 0.4 seconds, finishing with what I think might be a Clemson sprints record of 6:24.4.\u00a0It was one of the greatest races I have ever been a part of, and it was obvious that there was something beyond the guys in that boat pushing us forward.\u201d<br \/>\nA ceramics and materials engineering major at Clemson, Anderson was employed by Corning in Wilmington, N.C., as the submarine fiber-products supervisor. He maintained an active lifestyle including running marathons, cross-country biking, triathlons and was an Ironman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, a new crew boat hit the water at Clemson, thanks to the generosity of the family and friends of the late Patrick Anderson \u201907. Anderson, who passed away last summer, was a member of the rowing club, and family and friends contributed funds in his memory to purchase a new crew boat. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[708,1800,1802,2850],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-clemson-rowing-club","tag-lifelong-tigers","tag-lifelong-tigers-summer-fall-2015","tag-summer-fall-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/Lifelong-PatrickAndersonBoat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}