{"id":3089,"date":"2013-03-09T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2013-03-09T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:37:08","slug":"whataburger-trolls-40-of-the-big-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/whataburger-trolls-40-of-the-big-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Whataburger trolls 40% of the Big 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Big 12 Network&#8221; broadcasts of games often include ads for the Whataburger fast-food chain. This includes Iowa State-West Virginia, whose fans are literally hundreds of miles away from the nearest location.<\/p>\n<p>The northernmost Whataburger in the country is <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ll=36.141301,-95.975951&amp;spn=0.003284,0.004533 \">near downtown Tulsa<\/a>. The second-northernmost, by about half a mile, is <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ll=36.133217,-97.06098&amp;spn=0.003284,0.004533\">in Stillwater<\/a>, home of Oklahoma State, and I suspect that isn&#8217;t a coincidence. The states of Kansas, Iowa, and West Virginia have none, and neither do Colorado, Missouri, or Nebraska. Of course, this wouldn&#8217;t make the top five of the &#8220;Texas-centric&#8221; complaints CU, MU, or NU had when leaving, but it&#8217;s interesting nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Big 12 Network&#8221; broadcasts of games often include ads for the Whataburger fast-food chain. This includes Iowa State-West Virginia, whose fans are literally hundreds of miles away from the nearest location. The northernmost Whataburger in the country is near &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/whataburger-trolls-40-of-the-big-12\/\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","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=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}