{"id":5163,"date":"2014-08-01T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2014-08-01T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:33:22","slug":"iowa-state-on-the-wrong-end-of-rutgers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/iowa-state-on-the-wrong-end-of-rutgers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State on the wrong end of &#8220;Rutgers Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Ten&#8217;s welcome of Rutgers brings along with it something that isn&#8217;t unheard of on the Big Ten Network: Games against Iowa State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/rutgersfootball\/index.ssf\/2014\/07\/rutgers_day_on_the_big_ten_network_scheduled_for_aug_1.html\">&#8220;Rutgers Day&#8221; today on BTN<\/a> has not one, but TWO, unfortunate postseason endings for the Cyclones. Oddly enough, they both happened in New York City, which is fitting given that Rutgers&#8217; proximity to the nation&#8217;s top media market is why the Big Ten went after the Scarlet Knights in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Pinstripe Bowl and the 2004 NIT semifinal will air back-to-back on BTN, sandwiched by &#8220;The Big Ten Welcome Rutgers&#8221; specials. Ponder those words, &#8220;The Big Ten Welcome Rutgers.&#8221; I still have a hard enough time looking at preseason polls and remembering that Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas A&amp;M aren&#8217;t on the schedule.<\/p>\n<h6>This is a timed post.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Ten&#8217;s welcome of Rutgers brings along with it something that isn&#8217;t unheard of on the Big Ten Network: Games against Iowa State. &#8220;Rutgers Day&#8221; today on BTN has not one, but TWO, unfortunate postseason endings for the Cyclones. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/iowa-state-on-the-wrong-end-of-rutgers-day\/\">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-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","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=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}