{"id":9703,"date":"2018-02-22T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2018-02-22T01:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:25:36","slug":"maple-menace-vanquished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/maple-menace-vanquished\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Menace vanquished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight (Iowa time), Team USA won the women&#8217;s hockey gold medal for the first time since the first time it was featured in the Olympics, in 1998. It took hockey&#8217;s overtime, a shootout, and then an extra shootout.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetorch\/2018\/02\/21\/587802529\/u-s-women-s-hockey-team-faces-canada-in-gold-medal-final-at-winter-olympics\">NPR ran a live-blog here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heard during the coverage: &#8220;led by a goaltender who was seven and a half months old the last time the USA won gold&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woof. But I&#8217;m still young enough to pretend I could be an Olympian, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetorch\/2018\/02\/21\/587513454\/kikkan-randall-the-only-mom-on-team-usa-just-won-a-gold-medal-in-her-last-event\">Kikkan Randall Wins Her 1st Medal In Cross-Country \u2014 A Gold \u2014 After 18 Tries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>With plans firmly in place to retire and make a new home with her family after the 2018 Games, it seemed possible that Randall, 35, might see her career end without an Olympic medal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*shakes fist at young athletes*<\/p>\n<h5>ow my back<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight (Iowa time), Team USA won the women&#8217;s hockey gold medal for the first time since the first time it was featured in the Olympics, in 1998. It took hockey&#8217;s overtime, a shootout, and then an extra shootout.\u00a0NPR ran a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/maple-menace-vanquished\/\">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-9703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703","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=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9707,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions\/9707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}