{"id":89,"date":"2015-11-02T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/helen\/?p=89"},"modified":"2015-11-02T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:09:58","slug":"roar-through-the-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/2015\/11\/roar-through-the-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Roar through the Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/helen\/files\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-image-95 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/helen\/files\/2015\/11\/photo1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The kid Captain with Herky \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/files\/2015\/11\/photo1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/files\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two kids including the Kid Captain Sean Peck with Herky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About two months after school started, I finally got a chance to watch my first Iowa football game.<\/p>\n<p>It was showering and was expected to stop any minute. But it didn&#8217;t actually matter whether it rained hard or not, we were heading to the football game.<\/p>\n<p>We were part of the people waiting in the cold rainy weather before it was even one o&#8217;clock. It was kind of crazy I thought, &#8220;do we need that much time in advance?&#8221; The answer is absolutely yes because you know it is all about football. For Iowans, the wait was definitely worth it! And you know what, we won!<\/p>\n<p>Staring at the really empty stadium, we stood where the players come out for a time until I couldn&#8217;t feel my feet. People flew out of that entrance all of a sudden, then there was a pause. This little kid went out. He dressed as the captain football player. And when he walked out, he greeted the first row with a big nice smile. He was like a professional football player, at least he&#8217;s going to be. There was one time when Herky came with a skateboard, he let Sean stand on and hugged him. It was such a lovely moment that warmed the whole stadium up.<\/p>\n<p>Go Kid Captains, Go Hawks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two months after school started, I finally got a chance to watch my first Iowa football game. It was showering and was expected to stop any minute. But it didn&#8217;t actually matter whether it rained hard or not, we were heading to the football game. We were part of the people waiting in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/zihan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}