{"id":31193,"date":"2023-07-04T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31193"},"modified":"2023-07-04T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:08:23","slug":"arkansas-is-bizarro-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/04\/arkansas-is-bizarro-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Is Bizarro Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I picked up a local paper or three on vacation in Arkansas.  Those, and the highway signs and maps were very confusing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/confusingarkansas.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Alright, alright, alright.  To start off, Van Buren is not a county.  Van Buren is a city in Carter County, and its newspaper is <em>The Current Local<\/em>&#8211;I subscribe, of course.  The hospital in Clinton is <em>Golden Valley Medical Hospital<\/em>, and Clinton (and the hospital) are on Missouri 13, almost half way to Kansas City, not US 65.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, still the Ozarks.  And the taller mountain part of it.<\/p>\n<p>It was odd to see a lot of familiar names in different places, though.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know.  What are the odds that I will subscribe to the <em>Van Buren County Democrat<\/em> (and the <em>Stone County [AR] Leader<\/em>&#8211;I already subscribe to the <em>Stone County [MO] Republican and Crane Chronicle<\/em>)?  Pretty good I say as they&#8217;re only $50 annually even out of state.  Although I will probably not subscribe to the <em>Fairfield Bay News<\/em>, the volunteer-run newspaper from the resort town <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/30\/another-arkansas-vacation-recapped\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">where we vacationed<\/a> as it is only four or five sheets of paper mostly full of coupons for visitors, and it&#8217;s $70 annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I picked up a local paper or three on vacation in Arkansas. Those, and the highway signs and maps were very confusing. Alright, alright, alright. To start off, Van Buren is not a county. Van Buren is a city in Carter County, and its newspaper is The Current Local&#8211;I subscribe, of course. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31194,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193\/revisions\/31194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}