{"id":12528,"date":"2020-11-20T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12528"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:12:58","slug":"all-state-no-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/all-state-no-state\/","title":{"rendered":"All-State, No-State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, Iowa&#8217;s best high school singers and musicians are supposed to be at Hilton Coliseum for All-State. A month ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raccoonvalleyradio.com\/2020\/10\/19\/all-state-music-festival-cancelled-auditions-still-happening\/\">they found out they would not be<\/a>. The All-State honor was bestowed as if they would have performed, including to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamatoledonews.com\/news\/local-news\/2020\/11\/05\/three-from-stc-earn-all-state\/\">three students from South Tama<\/a>, but there will be no concert. There will be no honor bands for other students, either.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend was supposed to be the Cedar Rapids Festival of Trees. I am supposed to be a month in on trying to fly through <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/my-seasonal-challenge\/\">my winter&#8217;s bane, &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221;<\/a>. I am not. My band should be preparing for performances at multiple nursing homes. One of them has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2020\/11\/05\/iowa-nursing-homes-dozens-infections-were-cleared-inspectors-weeks-before\/6149700002\/\">drowning in coronavirus cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I fear for the long-term damage this effective ban on group music will do to the arts, not just concert bands but church choirs and school musicals and community theatre. You can&#8217;t Zoom your way through &#8220;South Pacific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. Traer&#8217;s ecumenical Thanksgiving Eve service has been called off.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, Iowa&#8217;s best high school singers and musicians are supposed to be at Hilton Coliseum for All-State. A month ago they found out they would not be. The All-State honor was bestowed as if they would have performed, including &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/all-state-no-state\/\">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-12528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528","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=12528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12545,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions\/12545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}