{"id":7190,"date":"2016-03-02T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2016-03-01T23:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T05:09:31","slug":"chuck-offenburger-writes-about-diagonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/chuck-offenburger-writes-about-diagonal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Offenburger writes about Diagonal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former &#8220;Iowa Boy&#8221; <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> columnist Chuck Offenburger is still a prolific writer and blogger \u2014 he wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bernie-Saggau-Iowa-Boys-Association\/dp\/976487519X\">book about Bernie Saggau and the IHSAA in 2005<\/a>.\u00a0Recently, he <a href=\"http:\/\/offenburger.com\/index.php\/if-you-love-iowa-high-school-hoops-and-small-towns-you-need-to-repeat-our-expedition-to-little-diagonal\/\">made the trip down to Diagonal<\/a> to see basketball games at Iowa&#8217;s smallest high school. Accompanying him were Bud Legg of the IHSAA and former sports writer Chuck Schoffner, making for a serious wealth of knowledge going to check out a small-town event.<\/p>\n<p>The it&#8217;s-a-small-world\/I&#8217;m-getting-old connection is that Diagonal&#8217;s girls&#8217; coach,\u00a0Gina Gunsolley, is the sister of Zach Gunsolley, who contacted me after I wrote a column for the <em>Iowa State Daily<\/em> about the pressures rural Iowa roads and schools were facing. That was in January 2003, two years and change <em>before<\/em> Gina Gunsolley graduated from Diagonal High School. (IAGenWeb already has a <a href=\"http:\/\/iagenweb.org\/ringgold\/schools\/diagonal\/sch_diagonalClass2005.htm\">Class of 2005 page up<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former &#8220;Iowa Boy&#8221; Des Moines Register columnist Chuck Offenburger is still a prolific writer and blogger \u2014 he wrote a book about Bernie Saggau and the IHSAA in 2005.\u00a0Recently, he made the trip down to Diagonal to see basketball games &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/chuck-offenburger-writes-about-diagonal\/\">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":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","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=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}