{"id":1655,"date":"2012-05-01T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:23:24","slug":"will-this-help-iowas-football-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/will-this-help-iowas-football-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this help Iowa&#8217;s &#8220;football culture&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20120430\/SPORTS08\/304240102\/While-economy-lags-Central-Iowa-schools-pumping-millions-into-athletic-facilities\">The Des Moines Register:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In the CIML, football teams are leaving grass for greener pastures \u2014 all-weather artificial surfaces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Indianola, which shares its field with Simpson College, installed a $750,000 surface in 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>West Des Moines Valley opened an $8 million stadium a decade ago with a $700,000 field. The field was replaced in 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article is about more than football though \u2014 artificial tracks and weight room upgrades are also part of it.<\/p>\n<p>(Title is in reference to the post below. If it seems excessively snarky, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m still kind of upset about the remarks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Des Moines Register: In the CIML, football teams are leaving grass for greener pastures \u2014 all-weather artificial surfaces. Indianola, which shares its field with Simpson College, installed a $750,000 surface in 2001. West Des Moines Valley opened an $8 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/will-this-help-iowas-football-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}