{"id":352,"date":"2022-09-08T05:57:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T11:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:42:18","slug":"game-ball-goes-to-the-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Game Ball Goes to the Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On behalf of all the dedicated football officials in our area, our own Dave Rittman recently accepted the weekly game ball honors from the hosts of ABC-Local 5 Sports show <em>Friday&nbsp;Night&nbsp;Blitz.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GameBall_Blitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GameBall_Blitz.jpg 900w, https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GameBall_Blitz-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GameBall_Blitz-768x689.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Last week the game ball went to &#8220;the Officials of Central Iowa&#8221; and Dave gladly accepted this honor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of all the dedicated football officials in our area, our own Dave Rittman recently accepted the weekly game ball honors from the hosts of ABC-Local 5 Sports show Friday&nbsp;Night&nbsp;Blitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appreciation","tag-news-coverage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}