{"id":4353,"date":"2014-01-01T16:14:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2014-01-02T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:02:22","slug":"happy-and-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/happy-and-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy and sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ISU men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams went undefeated in non-conference play. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20131231\/SPORTS020604\/312310107\/No-13-Iowa-State-men-play-Johnny-Orr-basketball-thrash-Northern-Illinois-to-hit-12-0?Frontpage\">It&#8217;s the men&#8217;s best start<\/a>\u00a0ever (12-0)\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrepublican.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/566976\/Cyclone-Challenge-stands-in-path-of-ISU-s-perfect-start.html?nav=5010\">one of the best for the women<\/a> (11-0). So, squee? Squee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HHueF.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But on a sad note, Johnny Orr died on New Year&#8217;s Eve. There are many obituaries and tributes online, including many at the bottom of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.widerightnattylite.com\/2014\/1\/1\/5262066\/farewell-johnny-orr\">post from Wide Right Natty Lite<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20131231\/SPORTS020604\/131231007\/Hansen-Johnny-Orr-was-more-than-a-winning-basketball-coach\">a remembrance from Marc Hansen<\/a>, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/colleges\/johnny-orr-a-coach-who-could-do-magic\/2013\/12\/31\/2a944f2c-725f-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html?tid=pm_sports_pop \">a piece in the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 1\/2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclones.com\/\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10700&amp;ATCLID=209357151\">WBB now 12-0.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ISU men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams went undefeated in non-conference play. It&#8217;s the men&#8217;s best start\u00a0ever (12-0)\u00a0and one of the best for the women (11-0). So, squee? Squee. But on a sad note, Johnny Orr died on New Year&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/happy-and-sad\/\">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-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}