{"id":16377,"date":"2026-08-17T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16377"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:35:43","slug":"the-1996-iowa-state-fair-and-a-ribbon-that-connects-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-1996-iowa-state-fair-and-a-ribbon-that-connects-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1996 Iowa State Fair and a ribbon that connects generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I admit I should have made <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-ribbon-of-memories\">this particular headline<\/a> a little more SEO-friendly. Also, although I donated it, it might not actually BE on display at the Iowa State Fair this year, and I feel part of that is my fault. I should&#8217;ve given a heads-up that I was going to run this column.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-ribbon-of-memories\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16378\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/substack_fairribbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/substack_fairribbon.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/substack_fairribbon-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/substack_fairribbon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I admit I should have made this particular headline a little more SEO-friendly. Also, although I donated it, it might not actually BE on display at the Iowa State Fair this year, and I feel part of that is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-1996-iowa-state-fair-and-a-ribbon-that-connects-generations\/\">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-16377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377","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=16377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16379,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions\/16379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}