{"id":13972,"date":"2022-04-18T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13972"},"modified":"2022-04-17T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T02:59:13","slug":"obrien-county-grant-to-bring-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/obrien-county-grant-to-bring-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brien County grant to bring bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13973\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PaullinaSign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PaullinaSign.jpg 400w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PaullinaSign-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 17, 2020:<\/strong> Paullina has a welcome sign with digital message board on the north end of downtown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien County, in northwest Iowa, has received a $5,300 grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The county plans to use the money to bring bloggers to visit, <a href=\"https:\/\/kiwaradio.com\/local-news\/obrien-county-gets-grant-to-bring-bloggers-to-county\/\">reports KIWA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if we still need a paragraph of explanation about what blogs are \u2014 or maybe we do because what&#8217;s left of blogging is <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@rebekahdietz\/is-blogging-dead-887f35a83587\">trending toward (ugh) influencing<\/a>. The blogs mentioned in the KIWA story, one of which is done by a member of the tourism committee, have &#8220;O&#8217;Brien County Ambassadors&#8221; in their headers now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17, 2020: Paullina has a welcome sign with digital message board on the north end of downtown. O&#8217;Brien County, in northwest Iowa, has received a $5,300 grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The county plans to use the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/obrien-county-grant-to-bring-bloggers\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972","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=13972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13974,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972\/revisions\/13974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}