{"id":15786,"date":"2025-01-09T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15786"},"modified":"2025-01-06T02:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T08:32:59","slug":"the-year-in-vibes-as-written-on-my-substack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-year-in-vibes-as-written-on-my-substack\/","title":{"rendered":"The year in vibes, as written on my Substack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-vibe-check-on-2024\">My year-ender<\/a> is partially my most-read pieces of 2024 (though not detailed beyond that), partially some election analysis, and partially committing myself to some sort of USA 250th anniversary project.<\/p>\n<p>If you need some background on why the vibes were everything, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/07\/is-the-vibecession-here-to-stay-heres-what-experts-say.html\">here&#8217;s a link<\/a> apart from the Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2024\/06\/25\/economic-data-glum-vibes-vibe-cession-pessimism\/\">and another one,<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/369267\/democrats-harris-vibes-energy-2024-presidential-race\">one that did not pan out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the not-vibes department, I did NOT expect to report from 15 communities in Iowa in 2024, nor did I expect to get to do two pieces related to my tied-for-favorite movie of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-vibe-check-on-2024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15787\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_vibes24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_vibes24.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_vibes24-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_vibes24-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My year-ender is partially my most-read pieces of 2024 (though not detailed beyond that), partially some election analysis, and partially committing myself to some sort of USA 250th anniversary project. If you need some background on why the vibes were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-year-in-vibes-as-written-on-my-substack\/\">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-15786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786","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=15786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15788,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}