{"id":7231,"date":"2016-03-25T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2016-03-25T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T05:26:13","slug":"pork-princess-position-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/pork-princess-position-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork Princess position pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the Iowa Pork Producers Association &#8220;combined the Iowa Pork Queen and Premier Pork Youth Ambassador contests into one competition this year and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowapork.org\/iowa-pork-producers-association-announces-2016-youth-leadership-team\/\">is no longer naming an Iowa Pork Princess<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tama County&#8217;s Christy Calderwood ended her reign as Pork Queen at the Iowa Pork Congress at the end of January.\u00a0Iowa and Ohio have been the only states with a Pork Queen for a quarter-century, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/1991-06-25\/news\/9102260086_1_iowa-pork-queen-hog-contest\">after Illinois and South Dakota eliminated theirs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myspace.com\/thedogwaggers\/music\/song\/god-save-the-pork-queen-25681457-25482642\">God save the Pork Queen, or nobody will.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, this is nearly two months old. That stack of <em>Spokesman<\/em>s doesn&#8217;t read itself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the Iowa Pork Producers Association &#8220;combined the Iowa Pork Queen and Premier Pork Youth Ambassador contests into one competition this year and is no longer naming an Iowa Pork Princess.&#8221; Tama County&#8217;s Christy Calderwood ended her reign as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/pork-princess-position-pulled\/\">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-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","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=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}