{"id":540,"date":"2011-10-01T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T18:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2011-10-01T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T18:40:43","slug":"about-cursed-fanbases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/about-cursed-fanbases\/","title":{"rendered":"About cursed fanbases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Grantland writer says the most miserable fanbase is &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/7006213\/misery-rooting-oklahoma-state-cowboys\">Oklahoma State? Seriously?<\/a> You&#8217;re not even the most cursed or ignored fanbase in your <em>conference<\/em>. An additional deduction for using the word(?) &#8220;squink&#8221; in an article about college football.<\/p>\n<p>This first week of October is Missouri&#8217;s &#8220;bye week&#8221; in more ways than one: The Missouri football team is off today, and Tuesday the Board of Curators will decide if it&#8217;s time to begin saying &#8220;bye&#8221; to the Big 12. Until then, ISU waits, and plays Texas, which is why the Austin American-Statesman is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/tough-as-nails-cyclones-quarterbacks-name-is-steele-1887221.html\">talking about Steele Jantz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other football news, for the first time since 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrepublican.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/543302\/Pirates-plunder-North-Tama-with-third-quarter-surge.html?nav=5010\">North Tama lost a regular-season game<\/a>. NT was using a new quarterback after a serious injury last week vs. Valley (the other one) way up in Fayette County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Grantland writer says the most miserable fanbase is &#8230; Oklahoma State? Seriously? You&#8217;re not even the most cursed or ignored fanbase in your conference. An additional deduction for using the word(?) &#8220;squink&#8221; in an article about college football. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/about-cursed-fanbases\/\">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-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}