{"id":11646,"date":"2019-12-08T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11646"},"modified":"2019-12-08T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T07:08:13","slug":"good-luck-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/good-luck-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Good luck, Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nLucas Grundmeier, my former <em>Iowa State Daily <\/em>and<em> Des Moines Register<\/em> cohort, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/12\/06\/lucas-grundmeier-will-lead-register-opinion-staff\/40774713\/\">has been named the <em>Register&#8217;s<\/em> opinion editor<\/a>.\r\n\r\nI have yet to make peace with people around my age being in charge of things. (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/minnesota-isu-coaches-share-birth-date-a-year-apart\/\">Like running a football team.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/political-figure\/tulsi-gabbard\">Or running for president.<\/a>) On the other hand, the alternative is continuing to live under the iron grip of the Baby Boomers.\r\n\r\n===============================\r\n\r\n[Programming note: I accidentally &#8220;updated&#8221; WordPress after I vowed not to and stayed up an extra hour to dig into making a reversion. Yes, the redesign was THAT BAD, as so many 2010s UI\/UX experiences are. I may need some patience. But not as much as Lucas will after being viciously tweeted at day in and day out.]\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Grundmeier, my former Iowa State Daily and Des Moines Register cohort, has been named the Register&#8217;s opinion editor. I have yet to make peace with people around my age being in charge of things. (Like running a football team.\u00a0Or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/good-luck-lucas\/\">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-11646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646","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=11646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11665,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions\/11665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}