{"id":15664,"date":"2024-08-27T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15664"},"modified":"2024-08-27T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:07:09","slug":"my-iowa-state-fair-column-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/my-iowa-state-fair-column-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"My Iowa State Fair column for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an idea fall into my lap, and I didn&#8217;t take it. Also, it rained that Monday, the first time it&#8217;s rained on me at the fair since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, I had a good second idea, and that&#8217;s what I went with, interviewing people working at the <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/church-rows-last-parishioner-turns\">West Des Moines United Methodist Church&#8217;s food stand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/church-rows-last-parishioner-turns\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15665\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/substack_wdmumc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/substack_wdmumc.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/substack_wdmumc-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/substack_wdmumc-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an idea fall into my lap, and I didn&#8217;t take it. Also, it rained that Monday, the first time it&#8217;s rained on me at the fair since 2015. However, I had a good second idea, and that&#8217;s what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/my-iowa-state-fair-column-for-2024\/\">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-15664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664","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=15664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15666,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}