{"id":248,"date":"2008-01-26T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:40","slug":"howard-binfords-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/howard-binfords-guide.html","title":{"rendered":"Howard Binford&#8217;s Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:1985-January-Howard-Binfords-Guide.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/a\/ab\/1985-January-Howard-Binfords-Guide.jpg\/458px-1985-January-Howard-Binfords-Guide.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Howard Binford was a journalism instructor at Moorhead State University when he started his magazine:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Howard_Binford%27s_Guide\">Howard Binford&#8217;s Guide<\/a>, a free publication for tourists or other non-locals providing handy lists of places to eat and sleep, who&#8217;s performing in town, and other things of interest in the Fargo-Moorhead area.   The magazine ran from 1968 until Binford died in 1989, with some changes throughout (as you&#8217;d expect in over 20 years of publishing), but the magazine kept its content and tone through the years. The magazine was sold to Kaye&#8217;s printing in 1986, and  after Binford&#8217;s passing Kaye&#8217;s continued publishing as &#8220;Fargo-Moorhead Magazine&#8221; &#8212; after which they, themselves, were bought by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/The_Forum_of_Fargo-Moorhead\">Fargo Forum<\/a>.  The magazine started in &#8217;68 by a teacher continues today through the largest regional publisher in the Red River Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Each Guide had a profile or interview with some local dignitary; hardly a whos-who of international fame, Binford wrote about an interesting group of local religious leaders, businessmen, regional government, and amateur performers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-4487077111105230654?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Binford was a journalism instructor at Moorhead State University when he started his magazine: Howard Binford&#8217;s Guide, a free publication for tourists or other non-locals providing handy lists of places to eat and sleep, who&#8217;s performing in town, and other things of interest in the Fargo-Moorhead area. The magazine ran from 1968 until Binford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133,107,472,381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}