{"id":9109,"date":"2017-08-10T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2017-08-09T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:35:00","slug":"shock-poll-4-in-10-iowans-are-imposters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/shock-poll-4-in-10-iowans-are-imposters\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK POLL: 4 in 10 Iowans are imposters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9110\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ButterEnterprise.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ButterEnterprise.jpg 535w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ButterEnterprise-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 15, 2016:<\/strong> Boldly going where 1 million people go a year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as crushed as Kyle Munson is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/columnists\/kyle-munson\/2017\/08\/08\/iowa-poll-shocker-lot-you-dont-care-iowa-state-fair\/544126001\/\">this revelation about the Iowa State Fair<\/a>, which starts today:<\/p>\n<p><em>[A] recent Des Moines Register\/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows that 40 percent of Iowans haven\u2019t even bothered to attend the fair in the last decade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Register&#8217;s<\/em> other columnist, Dan Finney, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/daniel-finney\/2015\/08\/14\/reasons-hate-iowa-state-fair\/31580167\/\">is on the record<\/a> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/columnists\/daniel-finney\/2016\/08\/08\/25-more-reasons-avoid-iowa-state-fair\/88397546\/\">huge fair hater.<\/a>\u00a0But to find out, when once-a-decade visitors are added, that\u00a0<em>more than half the stat<\/em>e balks at one of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.4hours1000places.com\/1000-places\/\">1000 places to see before you die<\/a>\u201d&#8230; call me odd, because I can&#8217;t even. <em>(We already knew you were odd. \u2014Ed.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m one of the 7 percent that&#8217;s earned a ribbon at the fair, too, all but two of them 4H-related. I thought I had a shot this year, but laid a goose egg on photography entries. (0-for-4! Super bummed!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 15, 2016: Boldly going where 1 million people go a year. I&#8217;m as crushed as Kyle Munson is about this revelation about the Iowa State Fair, which starts today: [A] recent Des Moines Register\/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows that 40 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/shock-poll-4-in-10-iowans-are-imposters\/\">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-9109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109","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=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}