{"id":564,"date":"2008-08-25T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T07:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:23:37","slug":"state-of-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"State of Ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Phillip asked to just <em>what<\/em> the term <q>Midwest<\/q> refers (this question leading towards a more vexing question).  I told him that the region was somewhat vaguely defined, but that in my mind it included the states from Ohio to-and-including Nebraska, and those to their north.<\/p> <p>(The more vexing question is then of why it should be called the <q>Mid<u>west<\/u><\/q>, when it is geographically centered to the east of the geographical center of even just the contiguous United States.)<\/p> <p>In the course of our conversation, I consulted a 1975 edition of <cite>The American Heritage Dictionary<\/cite>, which said that the Midwest ran roughly from Ohio through Iowa, which is one state to the east of Nebraska (thus centering the Midwest even further to the east).  Later, I discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/const\/regionmap.pdf\">the United States Bureau of the Census includes Nebraska in the Midwest<\/a>.  Further, some would include West Virginia and Kentucky, and some would exclude Missouri.<\/p> <p>For now, it is the Question of Nebraska that exercises me.  I have placed a poll at <a href=\".\">my &#39;blog.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few days ago, Phillip asked to just what the term Midwest refers (this question leading towards a more vexing question). I told him that the region was somewhat vaguely defined, but that in my mind it included the states from Ohio to-and-including Nebraska, and those to their north. (The more vexing question is then [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[202,381],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-everyday-frustrations","tag-nebraska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}