{"id":31385,"date":"2021-12-22T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31385"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:40:42","slug":"community-rallies-around-roswell-high-school-football-player-robbie-roper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31385","title":{"rendered":"Roswell High School football star Robbie Roper has died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Roswell\">ROSWELL<\/a> &#8212; Roswell High School football standout Robbie Roper has died following complications from a routine shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a message posted by his family on his personal Twitter account, Robbie died on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was the biggest joy of our family. We are proud of the young man he has become,&#8221; the message read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students, teachers, and football teams throughout North Fulton and beyond are sending prayers and encouragement for Robbie and a vigil was planned for him today in Woodstock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to WXIA-TV, Roper was scheduled for a routine shoulder surgery yesterday but had a reaction to the anesthesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives from football teams throughout Georgia have taken to social media to tell Robbie&#8217;s story and to ask for prayers for his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roper was a top prospect with scholarship offers from multiple schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=4]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROSWELL &#8212; Roswell High School football standout Robbie Roper has died following complications from a routine shoulder surgery. According to a message posted by his family on his personal Twitter account, Robbie died on Wednesday. &#8220;He was the biggest joy of our family. We are proud of the young man he has become,&#8221; the message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8472,10327,10720,9026],"class_list":["post-31385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fulton-county","tag-north-fulton","tag-robbie-roper","tag-roswell","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}