{"id":418,"date":"2010-08-13T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/08\/13\/football-field-work-starting-to-show-details\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:57:38","slug":"football-field-work-starting-to-show-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/08\/13\/football-field-work-starting-to-show-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Field Work Starting to Show Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-425\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/carpet-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"a long shot of a building\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/carpet-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/carpet.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wrinkles remind the average observer that Field Turf is a lot like carpet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Howard W. Hewitt<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Work continues in the stifling heat at Hollett Little Giant Stadium. Workers have been laying turf down around the main playing field which is covered.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more noticable highlights will be the coaches&#8217; box and side field lines which are a bright white. Workers were laying turf on the visitor&#8217;s side of the field Friday morning with the other three sides yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>See photos shot Friday morning <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_id=17630&amp;photo_album_id=2473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Sanchez, the project foreman for Field Turf, said Monday the project takes about 14 days. After five days of progress, it&#8217;s easy to see how the labor-intensive project takes that long. The field hash marks have to be cut and sewn in along with all of the lettering.<\/p>\n<p>Field work behind the Allen Center at the baseball field seem largely concentrated on drainage Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Work continues in the stifling heat at Hollett Little Giant Stadium. Workers have been laying turf down around the main playing field which is covered. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletic-fields-construction"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/carpet.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}