{"id":16253,"date":"2026-04-16T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16253"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:36:56","slug":"at-a-famous-site-learning-about-famous-iowans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/at-a-famous-site-learning-about-famous-iowans\/","title":{"rendered":"At a famous site, learning about famous Iowans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Stein brought his “Stories of Famous Iowans” series to Terrace Hill Historic Site in March. Visitors to the event also got to tour the site, the current Iowa governor’s residence.<\/p>\n

The presentation had expanded versions<\/a> of his radio stories, which he also puts online.<\/p>\n

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(I made this stop part of my “spring break”, originally scheduled on the expectations\/hopes that the Iowa State women would host opening-round games of the NCAA Tournament. Not only did that not happen, but a month later, Iowa State doesn’t have enough players for a, whaddycallit, team<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Stein brought his “Stories of Famous Iowans” series to Terrace Hill Historic Site in March. Visitors to the event also got to tour the site, the current Iowa governor’s residence. The presentation had expanded versions of his radio stories, … Continue reading →<\/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-16253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253","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=16253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16256,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions\/16256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}