{"id":40187,"date":"2019-12-07T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40187"},"modified":"2019-12-07T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T05:00:56","slug":"what-else-is-there-but-go-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40187","title":{"rendered":"What else is there, but &#8230; &#8216;Go Ducks!&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RoseBowl%20%23CFP%20%23Pac12championship%20%23GoDucks&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oregon-Ducks-Utah-Utes-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40188\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oregon-Ducks-Utah-Utes-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oregon-Ducks-Utah-Utes-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oregon-Ducks-Utah-Utes-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oregon-Ducks-Utah-Utes-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oregon-Ducks-Utah-Utes-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this moment, your friendly blogger is not at all concerned about the state of politics and the still-brewing cauldron in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>I am instead going to jump for joy over the score of a college football game. <strong><em>Oregon 37, Utah 15.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean? It means the Ducks are going to the Rose Bowl, which I consider to be a wonderful consolation prize for a team that two weeks ago was considered a potential contender for a spot in the four-team College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Then the Ducks went to sleep against Arizona State. The Sun Devils beat Oregon and dashed their playoff hopes.<\/p>\n<p>OK. So the Rose Bowl won&#8217;t be for the national championship. Utah was favored to win the Pac-12 title game tonight. The Ducks played with a bit of a chip on their shoulder. The Utes hoped a win tonight would vault them into the playoff quartet. Umm, am I sorry about that? Nope.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks delivered the goods.<\/p>\n<p><em>Go Ducks!<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RoseBowl%20%23CFP%20%23Pac12championship%20%23GoDucks&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this moment, your friendly blogger is not at all concerned about the state of politics and the still-brewing cauldron in Washington, D.C. I am instead going to jump for joy over the score of a college football game. Oregon 37, Utah 15. What does it mean? It means the Ducks are going to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What else is there, but &#8230; &#8216;Go Ducks!&#8217;?<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1932,9082,3468,4023],"class_list":["post-40187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-go-ducks","tag-oregon-football","tag-pac-12","tag-rose-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40189,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40187\/revisions\/40189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}