{"id":3138,"date":"2016-04-24T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/24\/8-huge-usc-linemen-got-stuck-in-a-tiny-elevator-and-made-the-most-of-it\/"},"modified":"2016-04-24T06:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:34:14","slug":"8-huge-usc-linemen-got-stuck-in-a-tiny-elevator-and-made-the-most-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/24\/8-huge-usc-linemen-got-stuck-in-a-tiny-elevator-and-made-the-most-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"8 huge USC linemen got stuck in a tiny elevator and made the most of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elevator-2\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzIzL2FhL2VsZXZhdG9yMi45MmYzZC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/1b22fe9c\/772\/elevator-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=8+huge+USC+linemen+got+stuck+in+a+tiny+elevator+and+made+the+most+of+it&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F23%2Fusc-football-elevator%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F23%2Fusc-football-elevator%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a weight limit of about 2,500 pounds on most elevators, and typically that isn&#8217;t something you have to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, when you&#8217;re a group of eight linemen on a Division 1 college football team, it can become an issue. This is the lesson learned by eight college athletes from USC, who became stuck on an elevator after exceeding its weight capacity by about 700 pounds.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/19\/shia-labeouf-occupying-lift\/\">Shia LaBeouf is occupying an elevator at Oxford University because Shia LaBeouf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Luckily for all of us, 6&#8217;9&#8243; offensive tackle Zach Banner was one of those athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Upon becoming stuck on the elevator, Banner immediately took to Twitter to post hilarious and dramatic updates about the group&#8217;s status. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/23\/usc-football-elevator\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/videos\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/funny\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Funny<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/football\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Football<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461445379' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461445379'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/UaZ-vSeVLz8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a weight limit of about 2,500 pounds on most elevators, and typically that isn&#8217;t something you have to think about. Of course, when you&#8217;re a group of eight linemen on a Division 1 college football team, it can become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/24\/8-huge-usc-linemen-got-stuck-in-a-tiny-elevator-and-made-the-most-of-it\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1148,1033,736,735],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-football","tag-funny","tag-videos","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}