{"id":9878,"date":"2018-04-20T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2018-04-20T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:40:33","slug":"kyle-munsons-last-day-at-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/kyle-munsons-last-day-at-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Munson&#8217;s last day at Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of my former co-workers who remain at <em>The Des Moines Register<\/em> has taken a hit this year. No fewer than four (that I know of) have checked out in six weeks. That includes columnist Kyle Munson, whose last day is today.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/columnists\/kyle-munson\/2017\/03\/02\/road-geek-has-visited-all-947-iowa-towns-and-driven-every-highway-mile-but-1\/98563312\/\">column he wrote about me last year<\/a> after I finished visiting every town in Iowa, my parents made a cameo appearance when he wrote about a movie being <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/kyle-munson-and-a-place-for-heroes\/\">filmed in Tama County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Munson has done <a href=\"http:\/\/iowapublicradio.org\/post\/kyle-munson-leaves-des-moines-register#stream\/0\">two interviews with Iowa Public Radio<\/a> about his departure.<\/p>\n<p>(A comparison between the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/02\/28\/meet-register-newsroom\/24146417\/\">early 2015 staff directory<\/a>\u00a0and the ones three years before and after would be illuminating.)<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I do get to that last mile in Correctionville, who am I going to tell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of my former co-workers who remain at The Des Moines Register has taken a hit this year. No fewer than four (that I know of) have checked out in six weeks. That includes columnist Kyle Munson, whose last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/kyle-munsons-last-day-at-register\/\">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-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}