{"id":39203,"date":"2026-09-05T12:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=39203"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:19:06","slug":"first-friend-zach-sehgal-2018-this-is-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/first-friend-zach-sehgal-2018-this-is-later\/","title":{"rendered":"First Friend Zach Sehgal 2018. This is later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">May I take a selfie with you Said Zach<br \/>\nWho are you Zach<br \/>\nDo you pitch sidearm. You\u2019re great! Zach said no that\u2019s Zach Grech<br \/>\nMe: You KINDA look like him. So my bad Where do you play Zach: middle IF ME: cool. I\u2019ll look for you. Thanks for the selfie<br \/>\nAnd then, every other person on the roster<br \/>\nWell, my first friend after the athletic director, Bernard Muir<br \/>\nI reprised the Zach Sehgal role when Bob Bowlsby took the SEC Chairman job. And Bernard Muir was hired<br \/>\nI was Bernard\u2019s first friend.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit Brendan Beck. Sophomore year<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39203 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/first-friend-zach-sehgal-2018-this-is-later\/img_9376\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9376-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May I take a selfie with you Said Zach Who are you Zach Do you pitch sidearm. You\u2019re great! Zach said no that\u2019s Zach Grech Me: You KINDA look like him. So my bad Where do you play Zach: middle IF ME: cool. I\u2019ll look for you. Thanks for the selfie And then, every other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}