{"id":986,"date":"2015-06-19T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=986"},"modified":"2015-06-19T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:46:35","slug":"whos-reading-my-book-21-dan-koppen-former-new-england-patriots-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/whos-reading-my-book-21-dan-koppen-former-new-england-patriots-center\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Who&#8217;s Reading My Book #21: Dan Koppen, former New England Patriots center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-IMG_3249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-987 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-IMG_3249-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Pats DanKoppen  IMG_3249\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-IMG_3249-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-IMG_3249-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u2018Who\u2019s Reading the Book?\u2019 #21 features former New England Patriots center Dan Koppen. Dan played college football for my alma mater, the Boston College Eagles, and was named 2nd Team All Big East center for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-988 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-3-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pats DanKoppen 3\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pats-DanKoppen-3.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>Dan was drafted by the Patriots in 2005 and played for New England for nine years before signing with the Denver Broncos, then retiring. During his career with the Patriots Dan was the starting center for two World Championship teams, winning the Super Bowl in 2004 and 2005, and was voted 2nd team All-Pro for the NFL\u2019s 2005 season.<br \/>\nSee why everyone is reading and raving about Paul D\u2019Angelo\u2019s hilarious new book \u2018Stories I Tell,\u2019 a global Gold Medal Winner of the 2015 eLit Book Awards, a Finalist in the 2015 International Book Awards and voted Honorable Mention in the 2015 New York Book Festival..<br \/>\nYou can buy the book at Paul\u2019s web-site: www.pdangelo.com<br \/>\nor on Amazon.com at Paul\u2019s author page: http:\/\/amzn.com\/069229435X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Who\u2019s Reading the Book?\u2019 #21 features former New England Patriots center Dan Koppen. Dan played college football for my alma mater, the Boston College Eagles, and was named 2nd Team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/whos-reading-my-book-21-dan-koppen-former-new-england-patriots-center\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Who&#8217;s Reading My Book #21: Dan Koppen, former New England Patriots center<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[22,24,29,32,35,36,42,43,44],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whos-reading-my-book","tag-paul-dangelo","tag-comedy","tag-humor","tag-comic","tag-stories-i-tell","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-book","tag-author","tag-dan-koppen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-fU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}