{"id":12818,"date":"2021-03-17T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:12:32","slug":"when-the-calendar-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/when-the-calendar-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"When the calendar stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, March 8, 2020, in the final game of the regular season<\/a>, the Iowa State women spoiled Baylor’s perfect conference record in front of 10,000 people at Hilton Coliseum.\u00a0It would be the last collegiate sporting event in Iowa for months.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Cedar Rapids’\u00a0SaPaDaPaSo parade scheduled for the following week was cancelled<\/a>. The following day, the\u00a0St. Patrick’s Day march<\/a>\u00a0between Davenport and Rock Island was called off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, March 12, 2020, the Iowa State men’s basketball season came to a dismal but scheduled end as the first of two games that night for the Big 12 Conference Tournament. The Big Ten already wasn’t playing.<\/a>\u00a0Hours earlier, the IHSAA announced limited attendance<\/a> for Friday’s games of the boys’ state basketball tournament.<\/p>\n

On Friday, March 13, 2020, at approximately 10:10 PM<\/a>, Ankeny beat Waukee 78-70 for the Class 4A boys’ state basketball championship.\u00a0It would be the last high school sporting event in Iowa for 95 days, until\u00a0Colfax-Mingo and Tri-County opened baseball season in Des Moines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, March 15, 2020, I was called and told that if I wanted to use my work computer instead of a laptop, I needed to go get it. Now.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, March 17, 2020<\/a>, Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered closures of restaurants and other businesses across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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