{"id":16437,"date":"2026-10-22T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16437"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:18:57","slug":"history-at-the-2026-iowa-state-fair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/10\/history-at-the-2026-iowa-state-fair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History at the 2026 Iowa State Fair (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/history-on-display-at-the-iowa-state-320\">a story just fell into my lap<\/a>: For one day only during the Iowa State Fair, a DNR employee talked about the history of Iowa&#8217;s state parks.<\/p>\n<p><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16433\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/substack_fairhistory2.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/substack_fairhistory2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/substack_fairhistory2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/substack_fairhistory2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a story just fell into my lap: For one day only during the Iowa State Fair, a DNR employee talked about the history of Iowa&#8217;s state parks.<\/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-16437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437","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=16437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16438,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16437\/revisions\/16438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}