{"id":46903,"date":"2019-04-24T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/player-of-the-week-mitchell-mcdonald\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:00:00","slug":"player-of-the-week-mitchell-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/player-of-the-week-mitchell-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Player of the Week: Mitchell McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell McDonald is the Juneau Empire&rsquo;s player of the week.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald, a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, cheered his soccer team onto victory from Seattle on Saturday evening. The Crimson Bears&rsquo; 2-1 victory over Ketchikan was part of a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/cancer-awareness-games-planned-for-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cancer Awareness Games<\/a> that raised over $8,000 Mitchell, who has been sidelined with Rhabdomyosarcomatous and is undergoing treatment in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell watched the game from an internet livestream.<\/p>\n<p>Dugan McNutt <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I87V-7c2w5Q?t=7313\" target=\"_blank\">scored in the first half<\/a> and Aidan Hopson added another goal in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The JDHS boys soccer team plays against Soldotna on Friday at 7 p.m. at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JDHS&rsquo; No. 1 fan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":46904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-46903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46903"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}