{"id":38,"date":"2009-01-24T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/wis-schools-epic-snowball-fight-flakes-out.html"},"modified":"2009-01-24T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:11:00","slug":"wis-schools-epic-snowball-fight-flakes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/wis-schools-epic-snowball-fight-flakes-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Wis. school&#8217;s epic snowball fight flakes out"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 1\/24\/2009<br \/><br \/>By RYAN J. FOLEY<br \/>Associated Press Writer<br \/><br \/>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 When a whistle blew Saturday afternoon, two teams of University of Wisconsin-Madison students pelted each other with snowballs, but the 45-minute battle won&#8217;t be going down in history.<br \/><br \/>Freshman organizer Mike Basak had hoped the epic snowball fight would break a 2006 record set by 3,700 students at Michigan Technological University, but acknowledged Saturday that the turnout at his school was disappointing.<br \/><br \/>Basak guessed that 2,000 or more students showed up, but other observers put the total at hundreds of students, not thousands.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;It was definitely huge and it was a great event,&#8221; he said.<br \/><br \/>In advance of the fight, more than 4,000 people had joined the event&#8217;s Facebook group, and word continued to spread as rival dormitories got ready to rumble in the center of campus.<br \/><br \/>School officials also prepared, recruiting a student group of volunteer emergency medical technicians to be on the scene.<br \/><br \/>Basak said no one was hurt in the melee, although &#8220;there were a few bumps and scrapes.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Some skeptics had said chilly weather and a scheduled school basketball game would diminish an attempt at the record. Temperatures in Madison were only in single digits, and the powdery snow on campus was hard to pack.<br \/><br \/>Basak said organizers hoped to go for the record again later this winter or next winter.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 1\/24\/2009By RYAN J. FOLEYAssociated Press WriterMADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 When a whistle blew Saturday afternoon, two teams of University of Wisconsin-Madison students pelted each other with snowballs, but the 45-minute battle won&#8217;t be going down in history.Freshman organizer Mike Basak had hoped the epic snowball fight would break a 2006 record set by 3,700 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,144,62],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uw-madison-events","tag-uw-madison-news","tag-wisconsin-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}