{"id":79,"date":"2014-02-18T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T04:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-02-18T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T04:40:20","slug":"watch-beam-falls-and-forces-iu-to-cancel-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/2014\/02\/18\/watch-beam-falls-and-forces-iu-to-cancel-game\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Beam falls and forces IU to cancel game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80 alignright\" alt=\"seats\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/02\/seats.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/02\/seats.jpg 315w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/02\/seats-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/>Tuesday nights game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Iowa Hawkeyes was canceled after a beam fell at Assembly Hall earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of metal facing which was 8 feet long and 14 inches wide and fell into a section of seats. It damaged seats and engineers suggested that the game be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>After a review of the building it was determined that there was nothing in the building that was not structurally sound.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/MZJAjqL76En\/embed\/simple\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" async=\"\"><\/script>Scary stuff. Thankfully this happened prior to the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>PHOTO: A view of the damaged seats at Assembly Hall. Can confirm game is postponed. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23iubb&amp;src=hash\">#iubb<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/HgajY8Bhac\">pic.twitter.com\/HgajY8Bhac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jordan Littman (@JordanLittman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanLittman\/statuses\/435882014265208834\">February 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday nights game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Iowa Hawkeyes was canceled after a beam fell at Assembly Hall earlier in the day. A piece of metal facing which was 8 feet long and 14 inches wide and fell into a section of seats. It damaged seats and engineers suggested that the game be cancelled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-79","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaabb-news","8":"tag-ncaabb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}