{"id":149210,"date":"2022-10-14T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=149210"},"modified":"2022-10-28T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:36:04","slug":"micd-up-with-ella-blum-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/14\/micd-up-with-ella-blum-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Cold spaghetti, &#8216;Grease,&#8217; and scatting from a mic&#8217;d up Ella Blum &#8217;24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plain cold spaghetti with red sauce. <em>Grease,<\/em> the movie musical. Plus some scatting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s just some of what Ella Blum \u201924 of South Salem, N.Y., was thinking about \u2014 and talking about \u2014 during a recent practice when the field hockey forward was mic&#8217;d up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blum is a sociology major, a forward for the Bates field hockey team, and has a talent for keeping things light during practice. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-youtube videoid=\"0rF0M0RZedk\" params=\"modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0\" playlabel=\"Mic&#039;d up: Bates field hockey forward Ella Blum\" title=\"Mic&#039;d up: Bates field hockey forward Ella Blum\" >\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>Video by Aaron Morse and Theophil Syslo\/Bates College<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether it\u2019s serenading a teammate with a movie song (Summer Gordon \u201926 of North Andover, Mass.), discussing dubious dinner menu plans, or checking in with head coach Dani Kogut on the possible addition of a \u201cbeep-bop-ba-doo-bop corner,\u201d there\u2019s no lull in the action for Blum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s clear she\u2019s \u201chaving a blast,\u201d but when the going gets serious, so does she, chasing the ball and hyping up her teammates every chance she gets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beep bop ba doo bop corner will have to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner menus, musicals, and a little jazz from the mic&#8217;d-up musings of Ella Blum &#8217;24, during field hockey practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1422,"featured_media":149360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149210\/revisions\/149596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}