{"id":4229,"date":"2014-12-03T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/rubio-long-snapping-blog\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2014-12-03T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:48:49","slug":"rubio-long-snapper-grant-merka-picks-up-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Long Snapper Commits to McNeese St of Full Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/grant-merka4131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4230\" src=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/grant-merka4131.jpg\" alt=\"grant-merka4131\" width=\"175\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/grant-merka4131.jpg 480w, https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/grant-merka4131-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a>Rubio Long Snapper <a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/playerankings\/profile.php?player=4131\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Merka<\/a> (TX, &#8217;15) has picked up an offer from McNeese St and has committed!<\/p>\n<p>Merka is an excellent Long Snapper with tremendous form that moves well on his feet and delivers a crisp, clean ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Merka sent me this message this morning, <em>&#8220;I just wanted to thank you for everything you have done the past three years to make me the long snapper I am today. Coach _______\u00a0from McNeese saw me on your website about 6 months ago. I couldn&#8217;t have done it without your exposure, thank you once again!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Congratulations to him and his family!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/signature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/signature.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQqKUri6y-8?rel=0\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"4229\">1298<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio Long Snapper Grant Merka (TX, &#8217;15) has picked up an offer from McNeese St and has committed! Merka is an excellent Long Snapper with tremendous form that moves well on his feet and delivers a crisp, clean ball. Merka sent me this message this morning, &#8220;I just wanted to thank you for everything you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,28,37,2,5,3],"tags":[6,551,745,19,20,1025,39,23,568,1026],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-college","category-deep-snapper","category-high-school","category-long-snapper","category-motivation","category-recruiting","tag-chrisubio","tag-exposure","tag-grant-merka","tag-longsnapper","tag-longsnapping","tag-mcneese-st","tag-rubio-long-snapper","tag-rubio-long-snapping","tag-scholarship","tag-texas-long-snapping-camp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}