{"id":10936,"date":"2019-05-04T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:52:48","slug":"the-only-opinion-column-that-matters-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-only-opinion-column-that-matters-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The only opinion column that matters this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/james-holzhauer-is-a-menace\/2019\/04\/29\/8931eee6-6a92-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>:\u00a0James Holzhauer is a menace to \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(warning: autoplay video)<\/p>\n<p>States move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/3ab98743f50a4a49a2fe64655234d495\">legalize sports betting<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2019\/04\/jeopardy-james-holzhauer-winning-strategy.html#_ga=2.128540236.1199435473.1556863553-1183930713.1556863553\">professional sports gambler<\/a> breaks Jeopardy. Probably just a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>But he didn&#8217;t know about either <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/05\/jeopardy-champ-james-holzhauer-isnt-sure-who-ben-sasse-is.html\">Ben Sasse<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uiowa\/status\/1124123971757268992\">University of Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop<\/a> ($1000 Friday clue).<\/p>\n<p>(Contra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/life\/2019\/05\/02\/jeopardy-clues-questions-iowa-trivia-interactive-quiz-des-moines-james-holzhauer-j-archive\/3652413002\/#\/questions\/2109788\">the <em>Register&#8217;s<\/em> article<\/a>, or perhaps happening after it was published, there was also a Madison County question on Wednesday.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post:\u00a0James Holzhauer is a menace to \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 (warning: autoplay video) States move to legalize sports betting and a professional sports gambler breaks Jeopardy. Probably just a coincidence. But he didn&#8217;t know about either Ben Sasse or the University of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-only-opinion-column-that-matters-this-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","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=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}