{"id":3011,"date":"2013-02-25T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:17:19","slug":"thats-why-he-looks-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/thats-why-he-looks-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s why he looks familiar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this year&#8217;s Jeopardy Tournament of Champions is &#8220;a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois, Colby Burnett.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His style made me think I had seen him somewhere before \u2014 and I have.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naqt.com\/Results\/2003-ict-divi-results.html\">Northwestern&#8217;s Quiz Bowl team at the 2003 NAQT Division I<\/a>\u00a0Intercollegiate Tournament\u00a0in Los Angeles. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naqt.com\/Results\/2003-ict-divii-results.html\">I was on Iowa State&#8217;s D-II team that year.<\/a> We would have attended some of the same tournaments in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>That makes two people connected to my quiz bowl days who I&#8217;ve seen on Jeopardy. The other is <a href=\"http:\/\/visions.isualum.org\/fall06\/falk.asp\">TOC winner Michael Falk<\/a>, who I did Quiz Bowl with at ISU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this year&#8217;s Jeopardy Tournament of Champions is &#8220;a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois, Colby Burnett.&#8221; His style made me think I had seen him somewhere before \u2014 and I have. Burnett was on Northwestern&#8217;s Quiz Bowl &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/thats-why-he-looks-familiar\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}