{"id":16098,"date":"2025-11-24T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16098"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:03:14","slug":"voluntary-and-involuntary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/voluntary-and-involuntary\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary and involuntary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/who13.com\/on-air\/seen-on-tv\/who-13-coworkers-share-favorite-memories-of-erin-kiernan-ahead-her-last-day\/\">Erin Kiernan is voluntarily leaving WHO<\/a> in Des Moines to spend more time with her family \u2014 and that&#8217;s in the most positive way possible. The TV staff surprised her with a seven-minute farewell segment.<\/p>\n<p>Today is her last broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hlas will not be retained when a <a href=\"https:\/\/littlevillagemag.com\/gazette-sold-out-of-state\/\">new owner takes possession of the <em>Cedar Rapids Gazette<\/em><\/a> Dec. 1. His last column will be Sunday, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/sports\/my-first-football-interview-was-with-a-hitchhiking-receiver-now-my-ride-here-ends\/\">he&#8217;s already put out his farewell piece.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(No further comment at this time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Kiernan is voluntarily leaving WHO in Des Moines to spend more time with her family \u2014 and that&#8217;s in the most positive way possible. The TV staff surprised her with a seven-minute farewell segment. Today is her last broadcast. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/voluntary-and-involuntary\/\">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-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098","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=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16099,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions\/16099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}