{"id":1019,"date":"2012-01-17T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2012-01-08T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T05:57:52","slug":"photos-by-the-numbers-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/photos-by-the-numbers-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos by the numbers: 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/numberseq\/Num076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2, 2009: <\/strong>On the northwest side of Waukon \u2014 you can see it on the map \u2014 IA 76 makes a turn off A52 (old IA 9) and heads for Minnesota. The unique characteristics of this sign are the inclusion in the first place of &#8220;Minn. St. Line&#8221; and the listing of a closer destination at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The entire route of IA 76, but especially the segment north of Waukon, has some of the best scenery in Iowa. It&#8217;s the edge of the Driftless Area, a section of northeastern Iowa that was not ground into submission by the glaciers. (A USGS writing says <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/ha\/ha730\/ch_j\/J-text2.html\">the glaciers didn&#8217;t come at all<\/a>.) There aren&#8217;t any straight lines here; the road hugs every hill. I drove it shortly after it was repaved, and it was beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2, 2009: On the northwest side of Waukon \u2014 you can see it on the map \u2014 IA 76 makes a turn off A52 (old IA 9) and heads for Minnesota. The unique characteristics of this sign are the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/photos-by-the-numbers-76\/\">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":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}