{"id":2247,"date":"2012-09-06T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:07:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:07:12","slug":"matchstick-museum-reaches-name-drop-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/matchstick-museum-reaches-name-drop-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchstick museum reaches &#8220;name-drop&#8221; status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, talked to Iowa Democrats at the convention in Charlotte, NC. Here&#8217;s how she familiarized herself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/burns-haberman\/2012\/09\/omalley-klobuchar-talk-up-iowa-ties-at-delegation-134482.html\">according to Politico:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You have Albert, the world\u2019s largest bull, we have the world\u2019s largest ball of twine. You carve cows out of butter, right? We carve princesses. You have the Matchstick Museum, we have the world-famous Spam museum,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s referring to the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Gladbrook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/statehouse\/model-builder-takes-on-capitol-project\/article_55c5c66b-091f-525f-b697-4c55ac2fb4a8.html\">The museum also inspired a Nebraskan to recreate his state capitol building out of matchsticks.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, talked to Iowa Democrats at the convention in Charlotte, NC. Here&#8217;s how she familiarized herself, according to Politico: &#8220;You have Albert, the world\u2019s largest bull, we have the world\u2019s largest ball of twine. You carve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/matchstick-museum-reaches-name-drop-status\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}