{"id":27259,"date":"2011-07-14T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-is_north_dakota_really_a_us_state\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:31:09","slug":"bbc-is_north_dakota_really_a_us_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27259","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Is North Dakota really a US state?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota is amending its constitution because of a long-standing technical omission that some claim makes its statehood invalid. So does that mean it&#8217;s really just a US territory and not a state at all?<\/p>\n<p>Every American child is taught there are 50 states in the US.<\/p>\n<p>But an 82-year-old care home resident in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is throwing the truth of that universally held statement into some doubt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-14142111\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota is amending its constitution because of a long-standing technical omission that some claim makes its statehood invalid. So does that mean it&#8217;s really just a US territory and not a state at all? Every American child is taught<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27259\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,133,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}