{"id":10829,"date":"2019-04-01T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2019-03-30T23:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:51:51","slug":"the-wreck-of-a-week-that-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-wreck-of-a-week-that-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The wreck of a week that was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa State women lost, at home, to an 11-seed, making me <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-glutton-for-punishment-contemplates-another-helping\/\">0-for-2 in personal attendance<\/a> this season&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/DNlLzCm3BsDo4\/giphy.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;while the Iowa women <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/26397555\/best-saturday-women-sweet-16-games-baylor-iowa-feeling-elite\">made the Elite Eight<\/a> \u2014 to face the big bad of the Big 12. (And the Iowa men got farther than the ISU men did.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/2016\/07\/08\/889\/n\/24155406\/5ceed9c7c151b07a_dear-god-gretchen\/i\/you-havent-had-sip-caffeine-before-school-drop-off-you-forced-deal-PTA-moms-stone-cold-coffee-sober.gif\" width=\"361\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press announced changes <a href=\"https:\/\/aceseditors.org\/news\/2019\/ap-stylebook-adds-new-umbrella-entry-for-race-related-coverage-issues-new-hyphen-guidance-and-other-changes\">upending decades of writing style<\/a>, in some cases for no seeming reason other than &#8220;because we can&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reactiongifs.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wtf\/oz-omg1.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but refuses to budge on the issue it&#8217;s been wrong about forever, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/blog\/what-is-the-oxford-comma-and-why-do-people-care-so-much-about-it\/\">the serial comma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/1X7lCRp8iE0yrdZvwd\/giphy.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally &#8230; a tall, fair-haired man seeking personal happiness jilts his true love\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/content\/news\/Sources-Fred-Hoiberg-will-be-Nebraskas-next-basketball-coach-507883231.html\">doing the third-worst thing possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/MwOuiiTfWfWgM\/giphy.gif\" width=\"262\" height=\"265\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/f9dfa8c4325e8046457e94859790c5df\/tenor.gif\" width=\"224\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s another GIF I could use, but its subtitle is NSFW.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa State women lost, at home, to an 11-seed, making me 0-for-2 in personal attendance this season&#8230; &#8230;while the Iowa women made the Elite Eight \u2014 to face the big bad of the Big 12. (And the Iowa men &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-wreck-of-a-week-that-was\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10845,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions\/10845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}