{"id":258,"date":"2007-05-14T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-05-14T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:41:42","slug":"letscornholeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/letscornholeem\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s Cornhole &#039;Em!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My alma mater, the &#8220;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiuc.edu\">http:\/\/www.uiuc.edu<\/a>, recently removed &#8220;Chief Illiniwek&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uillinois.edu\/chief\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.uillinois.edu\/chief\/index.html<\/a> as its mascot.  The appropriateness of The Chief as a mascot has been a hotly contested issue for decades, but at long last Illinois students have a solution to the mascot situation that they can all rally behind.<br \/>\nThat solution is Farm Bot.<br \/>\n!<a href=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/object\/911\/38\/n2200185771_34769.jpg&#8221;\">http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/object\/911\/38\/n2200185771_34769.jpg&#8221;<\/a> \/><br \/>\nFarm Bot represents Illinois&#8217; rich, agricultural tradition and its commitment to excellence in engineering via its unique, &#8220;Mega Man-style&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/img340.imageshack.us\/img340\/4766\/xpw8.jpg\">http:\/\/img340.imageshack.us\/img340\/4766\/xpw8.jpg<\/a> corn cannon, Abraham Lincoln hat that shoots fireworks, and jetpack that also pops popcorn.  Not convinced?  Let Farm Bot come to life in this nine-minute masterpiece!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TUvOSwiliBg\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TUvOSwiliBg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My alma mater, the &#8220;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiuc.edu\">http:\/\/www.uiuc.edu<\/a>, recently removed &#8220;Chief Illiniwek&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uillinois.edu\/chief\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.uillinois.edu\/chief\/index.html<\/a> as its mascot. The appropriateness of The Chief as a mascot has been a hotly contested issue for decades, but at long last Illinois students have a solution to the mascot situation that they can all rally behind. That solution is Farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[78,126],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-comedy","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}