{"id":15874,"date":"2025-04-14T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15874"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:37:41","slug":"colona-oscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/colona-oscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Colona-oscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s print <em>Des Moines Register<\/em>, on the &#8220;Around the State&#8221; page, there was this curious item:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15875\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dmr-colona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dmr-colona.jpg 471w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dmr-colona-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a page that is about stories from the state of Iowa, the Register ran a brief from a city in ILLINOIS \u2014 a suburb of the Quad Cities.\u00a0The dateline on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/news\/local\/colona-voters-reject-public-safety-tax-third-time\/526-c7db2aad-0cb5-4210-874b-c7b25d5e8436\">WQAD&#8217;s original April 2 story<\/a> specifically says &#8220;Colona, Ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did someone mistake Colona for the identically pronounced eastern Iowa city of Kalona? The item came from a TV station that covers Iowa, after all. But the dateline said Illinois, and it can easily be double-checked on a map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s print Des Moines Register, on the &#8220;Around the State&#8221; page, there was this curious item: In a page that is about stories from the state of Iowa, the Register ran a brief from a city in ILLINOIS \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/colona-oscopy\/\">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-15874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874","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=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15877,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions\/15877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}