{"id":77568,"date":"2023-01-19T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=77568"},"modified":"2023-01-20T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:42:47","slug":"throwback-thursday-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_19_2023\/throwback-thursday-22","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dancing Rockettes were formed by a local dancer at the request of UToledo\u2019s sports information director, who wanted entertainment during halftime at basketball games. The dance troupe debuted on March 16, 1961, at the Kent State-Toledo basketball game, becoming the first recognized collegiate dance team in the nation. The Dancing Rockettes merged with the Rocket Marching Band in 1978.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Throwback-Thursday-Rockettes-MAIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-77569\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Throwback-Thursday-Rockettes-MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Throwback-Thursday-Rockettes-MAIN.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Throwback-Thursday-Rockettes-MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_19_2023\/throwback-thursday-22\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Throwback-Thursday-Rockettes-MAIN-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>The Dancing Rockettes were formed by a local dancer at the request of UToledo\u2019s sports information director, who wanted entertainment during halftime at basketball games. The dance troupe debuted on March 16, 1961, at the Kent State-Toledo basketball game, becoming the first recognized collegiate dance team in the nation. The Dancing Rockettes merged with the Rocket Marching Band in 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":77569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,50,45,1,298,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77579,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77568\/revisions\/77579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}