{"id":47,"date":"2023-09-12T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/?p=47"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:19:54","slug":"first-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/2023\/09\/12\/first-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"First Football Game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all once again!<\/p>\n<p>These past couple weeks the football season has gotten into full swing once again. I attended the Utah State game, which was my first Hawkeye football game ever. The energy was insane! Everyone was cheering and participating in the fight songs. When I did The Wave for the first time, it was the most magical moment ever. We love ya, UI Children&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1123-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"student sitting in the stands at Kinnick\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1123-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1123-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1123-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1123.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We won, which was a great start to the season. There is so much to do on game day, lots of people had tailgating (plenty of non-alcoholic ones!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1126-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Student football section at Kinnick\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1126-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1126-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1126-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2023\/09\/IMG-1126.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend was THE game, the Cy-Hawk showdown. I didn&#8217;t go, but plenty of Hawkeyes did represent! I hosted a watch party in my dorm and we had a blast. I&#8217;m so glad we won this year! It&#8217;s shaping up to be a great season.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in the games: You can get tickets via Facebook groups, and remember the clear bag policy and stay hydrated!! Keep that pregaming to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all once again! These past couple weeks the football season has gotten into full swing once again. I attended the Utah State game, which was my first Hawkeye football game ever. The energy was insane! Everyone was cheering and participating in the fight songs. When I did The Wave for the first time, it was the most magical moment ever. We love ya, UI Children&#8217;s! We won, which was a great start to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}