{"id":3662,"date":"2013-07-30T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2013-07-30T01:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T06:48:33","slug":"your-pre-eminence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/your-pre-eminence\/","title":{"rendered":"Your pre-eminence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20130729\/SPORTS\/307290070\/1094\/SPORTS0206\/?odyssey=nav%7Chead\">Mm-hm.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI mean, the Hawkeyes in Iowa are the preeminent team,\u201d [Big Ten Network President Mark] Silverman explained. \u201cAnd because they are, they\u2019re a flagship member of the Big Ten and they\u2019re able to generate revenue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Said &#8220;flagship&#8221; member has won two halves of a conference football championship and two men&#8217;s basketball tournaments in the past 20 years. (Who is a non-flagship member? Stop pointing at Illinois like that.)<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the Big Ten shoveled as many Iowa events as it could to the network in its first season to <del>blackmail<\/del> <del>strong-arm<\/del> persuade Mediacom into picking it up (and charging $1 per subscriber).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mm-hm. \u201cI mean, the Hawkeyes in Iowa are the preeminent team,\u201d [Big Ten Network President Mark] Silverman explained. \u201cAnd because they are, they\u2019re a flagship member of the Big Ten and they\u2019re able to generate revenue.\u201d Said &#8220;flagship&#8221; member has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/your-pre-eminence\/\">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-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","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=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}