{"id":5654,"date":"2015-01-02T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2015-01-02T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:30:53","slug":"prince-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/prince-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Prince Farming’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am all for Iowa and Iowans not trying to be something and someone we aren’t. We have a certain image, and there’s nothing wrong<\/em> with that, per se. When was the last time an Iowa-ISU football intro didn’t pan over a cornfield at some point?<\/p>\n

But it sounds like ABC is going whole-hog (cough) on coastal versions of Iowa stereotypes\u00a0in the upcoming “Bachelor”<\/a> with Iowa native Chris Soules. Take this promo<\/a>, where he’s literally out standing in his field, or the title of this post, which is what he’s been dubbed.<\/p>\n

(We certainly wouldn’t want to point out that the idea of an Iowa full of young farm families is in the fourth decade of a major reality check<\/a>\u00a0and reaching crisis levels<\/a>. No, that’s not what something like this is about.)<\/p>\n

At the same time, Shawn Johnson is going on “Celebrity Apprentice,”<\/a> and I have no idea how she was expecting not<\/em> to encounter some sort of pigeonholing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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