{"id":1734,"date":"2012-05-19T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2012-05-19T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:05:36","slug":"the-die-hardest-of-the-die-hards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-die-hardest-of-the-die-hards\/","title":{"rendered":"The die-hardest of the die-hards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why my parents are the biggest, most loyal Cyclone fans ever: They recorded episodes of &#8220;The Jim Walden Show&#8221; in fall 1994. As in, the &#8220;oh-fer&#8221; season. As in, 0-7-1 and still making an effort to watch the recap of a 34-20 loss to Missouri. (Then they recorded news of Walden&#8217;s resignation afterward with three losses yet to come.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to overstate how bad that year was. The &#8220;Pivotal Play&#8221; in the Iowa game was one of the three fumbles, followed by the interception returned for a touchdown, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2008\/01\/21\/hawks-pounce-on-isu-cyclones-fumble-it-away-37-9\/\">in a 37-9 loss<\/a>. <em>These were the highlights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone else destroyed evidence of this season&#8217;s existence long ago. Perhaps that is why it was one of the <em>unlabeled<\/em> tapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why my parents are the biggest, most loyal Cyclone fans ever: They recorded episodes of &#8220;The Jim Walden Show&#8221; in fall 1994. As in, the &#8220;oh-fer&#8221; season. As in, 0-7-1 and still making an effort to watch the recap of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-die-hardest-of-the-die-hards\/\">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-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}