{"id":13386,"date":"2021-07-28T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13386"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:52:26","slug":"and-now-a-word-from-your-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/and-now-a-word-from-your-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"And now, a word from your parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9dUAsS5UiA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mom: Kids, we know you have noticed your father and I have been pretty quiet the past few days.<br \/>\nDad: The company&#8217;s two most profitable divisions are being relocated to the southeast.<br \/>\nMom: It <a href=\"http:\/\/m.kusports.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/21\/ap-source-texas-oklahoma-talk-sec-about-joining-le\/\">caught the CEO by surprise<\/a>.<br \/>\nDad: Let me tell you about something called &#8220;activist investors.&#8221; They are looking for ways to get the most profit for themselves, even if it&#8217;s not good for the company overall. Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/markets\/mergers-and-acquisitions\/conagra-to-split-in-two-in-victory-for-activist-investors-13371182\">how Conagra got carved up<\/a> and Cabela&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.com\/business\/after-cabela-s-sale-to-bass-pro-shops-activist-investor-is-cashing-out\/article_5396e9aa-f4b9-5f84-8507-9f1dccc2f5c0.html\">isn&#8217;t its own company anymore<\/a>?<br \/>\nMom: We are going to do the best we can to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/news\/texas-oklahoma-announce-intent-to-leave-big-12-but-plan-to-honor-their-existing-agreements\/\">hold on to the current contract<\/a>, but after that, we don&#8217;t know what will happen.<br \/>\nDad: I know we just built a new deck, but we&#8217;re going to have to put the basement renovations on hold.<br \/>\nMom: We might end up living in the basement.<br \/>\nDad: My friends are in the same boat, and we can&#8217;t relocate.<br \/>\nMom: I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re wondering if I&#8217;ve talked to my sister about it. But she&#8217;s a doctor who married a lawyer, and the family over there &#8230; they&#8217;re not fond of us. They&#8217;re more tolerant of Guido from the Jersey Shore and the cousin who wears outrageous outfits and sprinkles Old Bay on everything.<br \/>\nDad: They aren&#8217;t as enamored with farmers and small towns as we are. She might even decide she&#8217;s above coming here every other year for family activities.<br \/>\nMom: But Dad and I and you kids, we&#8217;re still a family, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s important.<br \/>\nDad: Even if the neighborhood changes.<br \/>\nMom: Remember when we <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclones.com\/news\/2019\/12\/28\/football-isu-falls-in-camping-world-bowl-to-no-14-notre-dame.aspx\">went to Disney World<\/a> a couple years ago? And we ran into some people who said they would absolutely love to be our neighbors? Practically insisted on it?<br \/>\nDad: Who said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/mike-bianchi-commentary\/os-sp-ucf-knights-nielsen-market-size-20210515-qr6lithucvdxzcbg4vz3b3jey4-story.html\">we don&#8217;t deserve what we have<\/a>?<br \/>\nMom [sighing deeply]: There&#8217;s a chance they&#8217;re going to get what they want.<br \/>\nDad [sighing deeply]: I&#8217;ll talk to Ann Arbor about selling my Campbell&#8217;s stock. She&#8217;ll love it.<br \/>\nMom and Dad: [gaze into abyss]<br \/>\nAbyss [in disembodied voice that sounds slightly like Beth Mowins]: &#8220;Welcome to the first conference matchup between Iowa State and Cincinnati &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom: Kids, we know you have noticed your father and I have been pretty quiet the past few days. Dad: The company&#8217;s two most profitable divisions are being relocated to the southeast. Mom: It caught the CEO by surprise. Dad: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/and-now-a-word-from-your-parents\/\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13386","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=13386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13389,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13386\/revisions\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}