{"id":5408,"date":"2014-10-19T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:48:14","slug":"philosophical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/philosophical\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Iowa State loses another game in the last minute in heartbreaking fashion, and it was on the Longhorn Network, and the entire state of Iowa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/sports\/college\/iowa-state\/gameday\/2014\/10\/18\/cyclonestv-viewers-out-of-luck-early-in-texas-game\/17527109\/\">wasn&#8217;t able to watch nearly all of the first half on cable<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WideRtNattyLt\/status\/523643298628792322\">did it really happen?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The 48-45 game makes for the second-most points ISU scored in a loss, behind a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/10\/18\/sports\/college-football-midwest-kansas-answers-a-40-point-blitz.html\">50-47 game against Kansas in 1992<\/a> that I attended. In third place is a 49-42 loss to Colorado in 1996.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/big12\/post\/_\/id\/91198\/big-12-power-rankings-week-8-5\">Uh, thanks?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>At least Iowa State fans are used to such heartbreak. I&#8217;m not sure any other fan base could take it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Iowa State loses another game in the last minute in heartbreaking fashion, and it was on the Longhorn Network, and the entire state of Iowa wasn&#8217;t able to watch nearly all of the first half on cable, did it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/philosophical\/\">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-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","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=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}