{"id":9130,"date":"2017-08-25T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2017-08-22T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:35:04","slug":"football-season-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/football-season-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Football season already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>OK, 2017 is coming<\/em>, I told myself months ago. <em>Year after a presidential election. I can clear my miles-long backlog of things to read and watch. Certainly August, when Congress is in recess, will be a time to get stuff done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha hahahaha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7erl9k01C2M\">oh I made myself sad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, edging into late August, that pile isn&#8217;t any shallower, I&#8217;m afraid, and it&#8217;s time to switch gears. For the vast majority of the state, tonight is the first Friday night of high school football season. North Tama is predicted by the <em>Gazette&#8217;s<\/em> Jeff Linder to finish somewhere in the middle of the pack of Class A District 5. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/sports\/preps\/football\/2017-iowa-high-school-football-preview-20170820\">See near the bottom of this sports package page<\/a>.) Linder predicts Gladbrook-Reinbeck to be district champion, on their &#8220;last run in Class A&#8221;, forecasting either dissolution or dropping to 8-man\u00a0<em>(!!!). (If G-R is a type to drop to 8, that&#8217;s not good for NT. \u2014 Ed.) <\/em>North Tama&#8217;s season opener is at home against North Linn, which is also predicted to be a middle-district-finish team.<\/p>\n<p>Now, continuing the new tradition:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uq4K1N9XttY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, 2017 is coming, I told myself months ago. Year after a presidential election. I can clear my miles-long backlog of things to read and watch. Certainly August, when Congress is in recess, will be a time to get stuff &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/football-season-already\/\">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-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","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=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}