{"id":16018,"date":"2025-09-04T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16018"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:47:40","slug":"who-wants-to-read-about-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/who-wants-to-read-about-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to read about pie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, eating pie is better than reading about pie, but I can only do so much. Here&#8217;s a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/the-cream-and-fruit-of-the-crop\">one of the pie contests at the Iowa State Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/the-cream-and-fruit-of-the-crop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16019\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/substack_fairpie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/substack_fairpie.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/substack_fairpie-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/substack_fairpie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, eating pie is better than reading about pie, but I can only do so much. Here&#8217;s a look at one of the pie contests at the Iowa State Fair.<\/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-16018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018","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=16018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16020,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018\/revisions\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}