{"id":679525,"date":"2010-03-01T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Gizmodo-5483255"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:05:22","slug":"topeka-kansas-changes-name-in-attempt-to-get-googles-gigabit-fiber-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679525","title":{"rendered":"Topeka, Kansas Changes Name in Attempt to Get Google’s Gigabit Fiber [Google]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Bill Bunten<\/a> is the mayor Google, Kansas—formerly known as Topeka, Kansas. He signed a proclamation temporarily renaming the city in an effort to convince Google to make Topeka a test site for a gigabit fiber Internet<\/a> connection.<\/p>\n

According to Bunten, he hopes that changing the city’s name for the entire month of March “would set Topeka apart from other cities vying for Google’s attention, which include Grand Rapids, Mich., and Baton Rouge, La.”<\/p>\n

Ah well, do whatever it takes, Bunten. It’s not like this is Topeka’s first peculiar name change, anyway. In 1998, the city was renamed “to “ToPikachu” to honor a nationwide kickoff of the Pokemon franchise. [CJ Online<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Bill Bunten is the mayor Google, Kansas—formerly known as Topeka, Kansas. He signed a proclamation temporarily renaming the city in an effort to convince Google to make Topeka a test site for a gigabit fiber Internet connection. According to Bunten, he hopes that changing the city’s name for the entire month of March “would set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QM5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780692,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679525\/revisions\/780692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}