{"id":16183,"date":"2026-01-22T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:29:21","slug":"crawford-county-uses-ai-logo-for-175th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/crawford-county-uses-ai-logo-for-175th\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawford County uses AI logo for 175th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like half of Iowa&#8217;s counties this year (this month, specifically), Crawford County turns 175 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/2026\/01\/16\/crawford-county-celebrating-175-years-an-iowa-county\/\">KTIV did a story about the celebration<\/a> and an abbreviated version aired on KCCI and KCRG. It mentions Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Black Hawk War grant of land there; he also received land in Tama County.<\/p>\n<p>I want to call attention to the logo behind the anchors right at the start. It was very clearly made with artificial intelligence. The number of <del>stars<\/del> white spots and stripes on the U.S. flag is correct, but the Iowa flag and its intricate centerpiece is abstracted. Most notably, though, &#8220;1851-2026&#8221; has a dash AND a star AND a bullet indicating the span between years.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of stuff that is going to go into time capsules this year. If things are going to be made with artificial intelligence, I hope that&#8217;s noted for the historical record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like half of Iowa&#8217;s counties this year (this month, specifically), Crawford County turns 175 years old. KTIV did a story about the celebration and an abbreviated version aired on KCCI and KCRG. It mentions Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Black Hawk War grant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/crawford-county-uses-ai-logo-for-175th\/\">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-16183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183","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=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}