{"id":3976,"date":"2007-02-20T23:32:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T07:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/20\/a-secret-is-revealed\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:47:01","slug":"a-secret-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/20\/a-secret-is-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Secret is Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6104,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Springfield_%28The_Simpsons%29#Springfield.27s_state&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Springfield_(The_Simpsons)&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6105,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/trailers\\\/fox\\\/thesimpsonsmovie&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100218130923\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/trailers\\\/fox\\\/thesimpsonsmovie\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 18:35:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 05:33:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 05:33:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Finally! An answer to the question that&#8217;s been bugging people for <em>years<\/em> now: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Springfield_%28The_Simpsons%29#Springfield.27s_state\" title=\"Wikipedia: Springfield (The Simpsons): Springfield's State\">just where <em>is<\/em> Springfield, anyway<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/2006\/02\/graphics\/simpsons01hilltop.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"500\" alt=\"...the four states that border Springfield...\" title=\"...the four states that border Springfield...\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Look at that, you can see the four states that border Springfield!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/2007\/02\/graphics\/simpsons02ohio.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ohio\" title=\"Ohio\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Ohio&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/2007\/02\/graphics\/simpsons03nevada.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nevada\" title=\"Nevada\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;Nevada&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/2007\/02\/graphics\/simpsons04maine.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Maine\" title=\"Maine\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;Maine&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/2007\/02\/graphics\/simpsons05kentucky.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kentucky\" title=\"Kentucky\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;and Kentucky!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, Prairie and I are looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/thesimpsonsmovie\/\" title=\"The Simpsons Movie\">the movie<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at that, you can see the four states that border Springfield!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,6,907],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-humor","tag-the-simpsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}