{"id":9646,"date":"2018-02-08T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2018-02-05T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:24:18","slug":"vengeance-justice-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/vengeance-justice-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Vengeance, justice, hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Olympics, with some actual events but a much-too-large complement of non-sports on both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisinsider.com\/difference-between-figure-skating-ice-dancing-olympics-2018-1\">the rink<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/news\/snowboarding-101-rules-competition-formats-judging\">the slope<\/a>, start today. There&#8217;s a good chance I won&#8217;t be able to see much if any of it, but there was one thing from Sochi I did witness live.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/UcPsn4g.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a puck sailing toward an empty net and hitting the upright as the US women&#8217;s hockey team blew a 2-0 lead to Canada in the last 3\u00bd minutes of regulation and lost in overtime (i.e. the most Iowa State way possible).<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that, and knowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/03\/29\/521863666\/wage-deal-averts-threatened-boycott-by-u-s-womens-hockey-team\">what the team has gone through<\/a> in the years since, and with the NHL boycotting the Olympics* on the men&#8217;s side, there&#8217;s no reason not to stand up and say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GO TEAM USA! DEFEAT THE MAPLE MENACE!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/russia-ban-chaos-2018-olympic-hockey\/story?id=51596952\">*But in Soviet Russia, Olympics boycott you!<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Olympics, with some actual events but a much-too-large complement of non-sports on both the rink and the slope, start today. There&#8217;s a good chance I won&#8217;t be able to see much if any of it, but there was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/vengeance-justice-hockey\/\">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-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","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=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9648,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}