{"id":6385,"date":"2010-04-01T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2010-04-02T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:29:56","slug":"citizens-of-rogers-demand-that-google-be-renamed-after-lost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/citizens-of-rogers-demand-that-google-be-renamed-after-lost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens of Rogers Demand that Google Be Renamed After Lost Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the citizens of Rogers, MN have created an on-line petition requesting that Google, <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/different-kind-of-company-name.html\">renamed<\/a> Topeka in honor of April 1, be renamed as Rogers until the town has been found on Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/petitions\/rogermn\">petition<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nWe, the people of Rogers, MN are looking to be found on Google Maps. Google seems to have misplaced us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If Google finds the job too difficult then we would demand equal time to the wannabe town of Topeka and request that Google changes their name to Rogers in celebration of our existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Whether Rogers will change their name to Google is open to negotiation.<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/fwidget.js?petition=rogermn&amp;width=280&amp;height=250\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Please sign the petition Find Rogers MN on Google Maps by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/petitions\/rogermn\">here<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/\">Start a Petition<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/\">online petition<\/a><\/noscript><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Rogers, Mn, <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/google-maps-what-happens-when-you-loose-a-town\/\">lost since March 17<\/a>,\u00a0seems to have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps\/thread?hl=en&amp;tid=022ec386e7165c71\">joined<\/a> by several other &#8220;lost&#8221; communities including Wickliffe, OH &amp; Imperial Beach, CA.<\/p>\n<p>This just in. The towns are dropping like flies. It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Google+Mobile\/thread?tid=6d7dcdeb7d96c264&#038;hl=en&#038;fid=6d7dcdeb7d96c264000483431d0a00fe\">Woodstock VA has now gone missing<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the citizens of Rogers, MN have created an on-line petition requesting that Google, renamed Topeka in honor of April 1, be renamed as Rogers until the town has been found on Google Maps. Their petition states: We, the people of Rogers, MN are looking to be found on Google Maps. Google seems to have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}