{"id":15124,"date":"2023-08-28T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15124"},"modified":"2023-08-27T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:33:40","slug":"namesakes-descendant-visits-waukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/namesakes-descendant-visits-waukon\/","title":{"rendered":"Namesake&#8217;s descendant visits Waukon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Waukon Standard<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waukonstandard.com\/articles\/2023\/08\/02\/prosper-waukon-makes-visit-his-great-great-grandfather\u2019s-namesake\">has an interesting story<\/a> about a connection to the town&#8217;s history. Prosper Waukon, the great-great-grandson of John Waukon, gave a presentation about his family&#8217;s history to the town in late July.<\/p>\n<p>The Waukon lineage has a period of &#8220;Smith&#8221; as a last name because Native Americans were encouraged to change their names during implementation of the Dawes Act, the <em>Standard<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Waukon Standard has an interesting story about a connection to the town&#8217;s history. Prosper Waukon, the great-great-grandson of John Waukon, gave a presentation about his family&#8217;s history to the town in late July. The Waukon lineage has a period &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/namesakes-descendant-visits-waukon\/\">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-15124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124","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=15124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15125,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124\/revisions\/15125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}