{"id":4816,"date":"2015-11-19T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2015-11-19T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T06:01:29","slug":"weve-got-redhawks-blue-hawks-skyhawks-and-now-fighting-hawks-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve got Redhawks, Blue Hawks, Skyhawks, and now Fighting Hawks.  So what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/hawks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/hawks-500x302.jpg\" alt=\"hawks\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/hawks-500x302.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/hawks-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/hawks-496x300.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/hawks.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>What the heck is a &#8220;fighting hawk&#8221; anyway?\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t aware they had such a propensity for combat.\u00a0 Besides, isn&#8217;t &#8220;Fighting&#8221; <em>anything<\/em> 50% &#8220;Hostile and Abusive\u2122&#8221; anyway?<\/p>\n<p>So, Dickinson State has the Blue Hawks.\u00a0 Fargo-Moorhead has the Redhawks.\u00a0 Bismarck has the Skyhawks.\u00a0 Now UND has the Fighting Hawks.\u00a0 Ho Hum.\u00a0 The two words together don&#8217;t even roll off the tongue, much less inspire&#8230;anything.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Roughriders&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t have been much better.\u00a0 In addition to everything in the southwest corner of the state being named Roughrider something-or-other, it&#8217;s also the nickname for a Grand Forks high school team.\u00a0 That would be weird.<\/p>\n<p>I have always planned on sticking with the Fighting Sioux anyway, but now I&#8217;m certain I&#8217;m making the correct decision.\u00a0 Fighting Hawks&#8230;unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck is a &#8220;fighting hawk&#8221; anyway?\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t aware they had such a propensity for combat.\u00a0 Besides, isn&#8217;t &#8220;Fighting&#8221; anything 50% &#8220;Hostile and Abusive\u2122&#8221; anyway? So, Dickinson State has the Blue Hawks.\u00a0 Fargo-Moorhead has the Redhawks.\u00a0 Bismarck has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-und-fighting-sioux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}