{"id":1046,"date":"2012-01-15T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2012-01-15T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:23:56","slug":"word-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/word-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, there was stridently anti-BCS\/pro-playoff AP columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2012\/01\/10\/sports\/s170756S22.DTL\">Jim Litke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Oklahoma State, meanwhile, finished 4-0 against teams in the final Top 25 and likely would have claimed Alabama&#8217;s spot in the title were it not for an emotional overtime loss at lowly Iowa State.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ISU football team was perfectly mediocre with a 6-6 regular season, but <em>lowly<\/em>? <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/lowly\">That word choice<\/a> seems influenced by historical narrative. (Not that the narrative is wrong, just overly harsh in this particular instance.)<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncw\/recap?gameId=320140066\">women&#8217;s basketball team<\/a>, on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>No. 10 Texas A&amp;M easily handles lowly Iowa State<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The context of the second appearance of the word in four days is much harder to argue.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some day Iowa State games will show up as another team&#8217;s &#8220;best wins&#8221; rather than &#8220;worst losses&#8221; (or in the case of 1972 Nebraska, &#8220;worst ties&#8221;). But the narrative carries a lot of inertia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, there was stridently anti-BCS\/pro-playoff AP columnist Jim Litke: Oklahoma State, meanwhile, finished 4-0 against teams in the final Top 25 and likely would have claimed Alabama&#8217;s spot in the title were it not for an emotional overtime loss at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/word-of-the-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}