{"id":11007,"date":"2019-05-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11007"},"modified":"2019-05-27T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T00:25:24","slug":"a-misadventure-in-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-misadventure-in-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"A misadventure in timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The scene:<\/strong> Where the tall corn grows<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status of the protagonist:<\/strong> Getting cross-eyed staring at spreadsheets, realizing that one was set up with different alphabetization rules than the other<\/p>\n<p><strong>The internal dialogue:<\/strong> &#8220;Woof, transferring one data set to sync with another slightly different one is harder than I thought. But I&#8217;d like to work with the most recent population estimates rather than the 2010 numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thirty-six hours later:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2019\/subcounty-population-estimates.html\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/a>\u00a0THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/data\/tables\/time-series\/demo\/popest\/2010s-total-cities-and-towns.html\">City and Town Population Totals: 2010-2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/xUPGcsOUuzOJ7uooFO\/giphy.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene: Where the tall corn grows Status of the protagonist: Getting cross-eyed staring at spreadsheets, realizing that one was set up with different alphabetization rules than the other The internal dialogue: &#8220;Woof, transferring one data set to sync with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-misadventure-in-timing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11020,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}