{"id":9377,"date":"2017-11-27T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2017-11-25T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T06:56:33","slug":"idle-thoughts-for-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/idle-thoughts-for-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle thoughts for the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In retrospect, scheduling the physical for the Monday after Thanksgiving may not have been the brightest idea.<\/li>\n<li>The Shopko (former Pamida) in Vinton was open for business with a semi-sizable crowd at 7:30 PM on Thanksgiving. Everyone voluntarily involved in that should reconsider things.<\/li>\n<li>Because Thanksgiving was the second-earliest day it could be this year, the week following is still November, yet the networks see fit to make sure every Christmas special gets on TV <em>now<\/em>. Why?<\/li>\n<li>Weekend news reports from Lincoln and Fayetteville:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grbSQ6O6kbs\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In retrospect, scheduling the physical for the Monday after Thanksgiving may not have been the brightest idea. The Shopko (former Pamida) in Vinton was open for business with a semi-sizable crowd at 7:30 PM on Thanksgiving. Everyone voluntarily involved in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/idle-thoughts-for-the-week\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}