{"id":15265,"date":"2016-05-04T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=15265"},"modified":"2016-05-04T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:45:20","slug":"bowl-games-bring-out-the-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/bowl-games-bring-out-the-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowl games bring out the Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15141\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Bowl Feeding 6\" width=\"800\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6-768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6-705x307.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>The Orange Bowl and the National Championship this season put the spotlight on Clemson Clubs in the Miami and Phoenix areas. Both cities turned orange as Clemson fans showed up in mass for the games.<br \/>\nOrange-bedecked fans also visited the Grand Canyon in droves, making it look like it should be a Clemson attraction, rather than a national park.<br \/>\nClubs in both cities, with the help of the Alumni Association, organized an array of activities that included service projects, tailgates, pep rallies and other pre-game events. Clemson alumni and fans so impressed the chair of the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority that he sent a letter to South Carolina newspapers.<br \/>\n\u201cClemson may not have won the title, but the Tigers and their followers left a lasting and positive impression in the Valley of the Sun this week,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLocal residents, business owners and dignitaries were so impressed with the way Clemson fans conducted themselves during the team\u2019s first trip to the desert.\u201d<br \/>\nClemson fans are confident that it won\u2019t be the last.<br \/>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-1 avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/football-national-champs-2016.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' 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Both cities turned orange as Clemson fans showed up in mass for the games. Orange-bedecked fans also visited the Grand Canyon in droves, making it look like it should be a Clemson attraction, rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62,668,669,880,994,2154,2698],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-2016-national-football-championship","tag-clemson-club-miami","tag-clemson-club-phoenix","tag-cw-spring-2016","tag-diversity","tag-orange-bowl","tag-spring-2016-lifelong"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/Orange-Bowl-Feeding-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265","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=15265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}