{"id":14590,"date":"2012-05-17T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:36:42","slug":"famus-marching-band-suspended-for-at-least-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14590","title":{"rendered":"FAMU\u2019s Marching Band Suspended For At Least Another\u00a0Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla.\u2013 Florida A&amp;M University\u2018s famed marching band is being suspended for at least one more school year as officials try to cleanse the hazing culture that led to the death of a drum major, the school\u2019s president said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>FAMU President <strong>James Ammons<\/strong> said the Marching 100 should stay off the field at least until a new band director is hired and new rules for the band have been adopted. Eleven FAMU band members face felony charges in the November hazing death of <strong>Robert Champion<\/strong>, while two others face misdemeanor counts. The band has been banned from performing since soon after he died, and band director <strong>Julian White<\/strong> recently retired after it was revealed that at least 100 band members were not students when <strong>Champion<\/strong> died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla.\u2013 Florida A&amp;M University\u2018s famed marching band is being suspended for at least one more school year as officials try to cleanse the hazing culture that led to the death of a drum major, the school\u2019s president said Monday. FAMU President James Ammons said the Marching 100 should stay off the field at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}