{"id":1417,"date":"2009-01-26T01:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:47:20","slug":"our-long-wait-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2009\/01\/26\/our-long-wait-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Long Wait Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/popwatch\/2009\/01\/miss-america-do.html\">chances are you did<\/a>, Indiana is now home to Miss America, ending our embarrassing 77-year drought. Now I no longer have to hang my head when I return to Kansas City and hear from friends who live both in Kansas and Missouri, &#8220;What kind of state can&#8217;t even claim a Miss America title?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re off the shnide. Suck it, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Miss_America_winners_by_state\">Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, more importantly, my daughters finally have a real role model to pattern their lives after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, and chances are you did, Indiana is now home to Miss America, ending our embarrassing 77-year drought. Now I no longer have to hang my head when I return to Kansas City and hear from friends who live both in Kansas and Missouri, &#8220;What kind of state can&#8217;t even claim a Miss America title?&#8221; We&#8217;re off the shnide. Suck it, Iowa. And, more importantly, my daughters finally have a real role model to pattern their lives after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,129],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-indiana","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15087,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}