{"id":15491,"date":"2024-04-26T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15491"},"modified":"2024-04-22T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:55:53","slug":"iowa-border-history-with-a-focus-on-the-iowa-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/iowa-border-history-with-a-focus-on-the-iowa-great-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa border history, with a focus on the Iowa Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Garson of the Iowa Writers&#8217; Collaborative <a href=\"https:\/\/arnoldgarson.substack.com\/p\/how-the-okoboji-area-almost-became\">wrote a Substack post last week<\/a> about how the Iowa Great Lakes almost didn&#8217;t figure in to the state of Iowa. His writeup touches on the paired-states issue before the Civil War (slave state Florida, free state Iowa; slave state Texas, free state Wisconsin) and how the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em>\u00a0promoted and covered the region in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>The eagle-eyed reader will spot an uncredited map in the piece. That map would be <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/stateboundary.html\">from a page on this very website<\/a> created more than 15 years ago about the different proposed Iowa borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Garson of the Iowa Writers&#8217; Collaborative wrote a Substack post last week about how the Iowa Great Lakes almost didn&#8217;t figure in to the state of Iowa. His writeup touches on the paired-states issue before the Civil War (slave &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/iowa-border-history-with-a-focus-on-the-iowa-great-lakes\/\">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":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491","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=15491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}