{"id":6846,"date":"2015-12-14T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2015-12-14T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T06:52:48","slug":"branstad-now-nations-longest-serving-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/branstad-now-nations-longest-serving-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Branstad now nation&#8217;s longest-serving governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Iowans born after 1974 (including myself), Terry Branstad has run Iowa for more than half our lives. Now his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2015\/12\/11\/branstad-hits-7642nd-day-as-governor-monday-setting-national-longevity-record\/\">record for longest-serving governor in US history is official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>On Monday, Terry Branstad will have been Iowa\u2019s governor for one out of every eight days that Iowa has been a state according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/editions.lib.umn.edu\/smartpolitics\/2015\/12\/08\/terry-branstad-and-the-top-50-longest-serving-governors-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">calculations<\/a>\u00a0by a University of Minnesota political science professor. It\u2019ll be a total of 7,642 days. It pushes him past record-holder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hallofgovernors.ny.gov\/GeorgeClinton\" target=\"_blank\">George Clinton<\/a>, a Revolutionary War hero who served as the governor of New York for nearly 21 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Register&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/kyle-munson\/2015\/12\/12\/iowa-governor-terry-branstad-longest-serving-in-america\/76718090\">Kyle Munson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/kathie-obradovich\/2015\/12\/12\/column-five-ways-branstad-changed-iowa-forever-governor-historic\/77165876\/\">Kathie Obradovich<\/a> have written about the record too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Iowans born after 1974 (including myself), Terry Branstad has run Iowa for more than half our lives. Now his record for longest-serving governor in US history is official. On Monday, Terry Branstad will have been Iowa\u2019s governor for one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/branstad-now-nations-longest-serving-governor\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6855,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}