{"id":15198,"date":"2023-09-22T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15198"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T03:18:42","slug":"annexation-of-entire-towns-a-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/annexation-of-entire-towns-a-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Annexation of entire towns: A history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/its-a-town-eat-town-world\">In my latest Substack post<\/a>, I write about some notable cases in Iowa history where one community was entirely subsumed by another. In one case, it was one community swallowing eight others. (I bet you can figure out what city was allowed to do that.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/its-a-town-eat-town-world\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15199 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/towneattown_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/towneattown_sm.jpg 636w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/towneattown_sm-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/towneattown_sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest Substack post, I write about some notable cases in Iowa history where one community was entirely subsumed by another. In one case, it was one community swallowing eight others. (I bet you can figure out what city &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/annexation-of-entire-towns-a-history\/\">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-15198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198","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=15198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15200,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions\/15200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}