{"id":81,"date":"2011-07-16T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-07-25T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T23:28:38","slug":"last-at-bat-for-east-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/last-at-bat-for-east-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Last at-bat for East Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clintonherald.com\/sports\/x1241064814\/Exit-from-tournament-makes-it-a-sad-day-for-East-Central\">Clinton Herald:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[Taylor Keeney] wasn\u2019t just closing the gate for the night or on the season \u2014  which ended with the loss in the district semifinal \u2014 or on his high  school career. The gate was closing on East Central baseball, East  Central sports, in general, and East Central High School.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Before the gate clanged shut, the gates holding back his emotions swung wide open.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen you\u2019ve started varsity here for five years \u2014 I\u2019ve put in at least  three or four hours on the field making it look the best in eastern  Iowa every single day \u2014 it\u2019s just hard to let go,\u201d\u2008Keeney said as tears  streamed from his eyes and choked his voice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>East Central will be in whole-grade sharing with Northeast of Goose Lake next year after a potential deal with Preston <a href=\"http:\/\/clintonherald.com\/local\/x300769906\/Judge-AEA-board-must-testify\/print\">got tangled up in the courts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Herald: [Taylor Keeney] wasn\u2019t just closing the gate for the night or on the season \u2014 which ended with the loss in the district semifinal \u2014 or on his high school career. The gate was closing on East Central &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/last-at-bat-for-east-central\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}