{"id":15616,"date":"2024-07-23T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15616"},"modified":"2024-07-21T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:35:31","slug":"koality-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/koality-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Koality control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This clip is from the RAGBRAI support vehicle map for today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15618\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ragbrai_support_bad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ragbrai_support_bad.jpg 563w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ragbrai_support_bad-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\/stares<\/p>\n<p>\/\/STARES<\/p>\n<p>Does Gannett not have proofreaders for anything anymore? <em>(This is a rhetorical question. \u2014 Ed.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And what map service were those <a href=\"https:\/\/ragbrai.com\/maps\/\">support vehicle route directions<\/a> copied from, because routes like &#8220;US-34&#8221; should not be hyphenated?<\/p>\n<p>On a mostly unrelated note, Bob Newhart had a part in &#8220;Cold Turkey,&#8221; the 1971 movie filmed in Greenfield. The <em>Creston News-Advertiser<\/em> inserted this into their printing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crestonnews.com\/news\/local\/2024\/07\/18\/cold-turkeys-bob-newhart-dies-at-94\/\">Newhart&#8217;s Associated Press obituary<\/a>: &#8220;He played Merwin Wren, the Valiant Tobacco Company spokesman who promised $25 million to any town in America that can have its residents <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GoingColdTurkey\">quit smoking <\/a>for 30 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This clip is from the RAGBRAI support vehicle map for today. \/stares \/\/STARES Does Gannett not have proofreaders for anything anymore? (This is a rhetorical question. \u2014 Ed.) And what map service were those support vehicle route directions copied from, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/koality-control\/\">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-15616","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\/15616","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=15616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15622,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15616\/revisions\/15622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}