{"id":1750,"date":"2008-10-15T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2013-06-08T18:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T23:53:37","slug":"bismarck-being-misspelled-from-the-get-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"BismarCk: being misspelled from the get-go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/bismark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/bismark_36032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>These first-class train tickets from the 1870s show that people have always had a problem with the proper spelling of our fair city. Bismarck sprang to life in 1872 and got its current name a year later, so it&#8217;s a reasonable conclusion that the name has been a source of misspellings ever since. How many times is misspelled on your mail?<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/bismark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I posted about this truck a long time ago, and I remember seeing Cass Clay trucks at the facility in Mandan with the same error. Then there were the ill-fated phone books of about ten years ago, which I believe were Yellow Book products. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>What would <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_von_bismarck\" target=\"_blank\">Otto von Bismarck<\/a> think? After all, our capital city <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bismarck,_North_Dakota#History\" target=\"_blank\">was originally named Edwinton <\/a> but later renamed after Herr Chancellor in order to attract German immigrants (and investment in the railroad).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These first-class train tickets from the 1870s show that people have always had a problem with the proper spelling of our fair city. Bismarck sprang to life in 1872 and got its current name a year later, so it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1750\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signs-logos-typos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}