{"id":11615,"date":"2019-12-31T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2019-12-23T23:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T05:57:51","slug":"sorry-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/sorry-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11616\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/seeing2020.jpg\" width=\"865\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/seeing2020.jpg 865w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/seeing2020-300x50.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was 1995, and I was a dork. Now it is not 1995, and I am still a dork. (There was no college football championship at the time, and Iowa State certainly wasn&#8217;t doing anything bowl-worthy, so I took my best shot.)<\/p>\n<p>I have a couple different fears now, but that&#8217;s not to say the old ones are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think about how to reconcile who I think I am now with the person I thought I was. It can be very difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1995, and I was a dork. Now it is not 1995, and I am still a dork. (There was no college football championship at the time, and Iowa State certainly wasn&#8217;t doing anything bowl-worthy, so I took my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/sorry-kid\/\">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-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","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=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}