{"id":1033,"date":"2012-01-22T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2012-01-09T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T06:58:09","slug":"photos-by-the-numbers-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/photos-by-the-numbers-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos by the numbers: 81"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May 9, 2009: <\/strong>North of York, Nebraska, on my way back from Denver. I took US 34 through about the central third of Nebraska.<\/p>\n

The 100-degrees-west line of longitude, which is still a ways west from here, is judged by one standard to be “where the plains begin” because that’s where rainfall patterns change. It even made it into a song.<\/a> However, I would argue that US 81 \u2014 or even US 75 \u2014 is a little better indicator for travelers. Once you get west of it\/those, the odds of easily finding a gas station, hotel, or food (particularly fast food) within half an hour start decreasing. (That’s especially true off the interstates.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 9, 2009: North of York, Nebraska, on my way back from Denver. I took US 34 through about the central third of Nebraska. The 100-degrees-west line of longitude, which is still a ways west from here, is judged by … Continue reading →<\/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-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","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=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}