{"id":11328,"date":"2019-09-18T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2019-09-15T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T19:58:49","slug":"rvtv-for-traer-start-the-campaign-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/rvtv-for-traer-start-the-campaign-now\/","title":{"rendered":"RVTV for Traer: Start the campaign now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=1neTFoaTE61bxgSOqn2su_2jBOW0qJKT&amp;pbid=65279b80531146eea3c65f3510b1c4b9&amp;pcode=oycHE6T-HajMk2Hs9PsZzFdXZduU\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>^ A highway-related segment from last week&#8217;s RVTV.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious that Traer is <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/analysis-of-2018-ragbrai-map\/\">never going to be a pass-through town<\/a> on the Register&#8217;s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa because of its lack of county road access. But there is another almost-institution where the town might stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p>For years now, before the Iowa-Iowa State game, WHO-TV has gone on the road with RVTV. The crew stops in a town that goes all-out to promote the big game.<\/p>\n<p>Tama County is on the fringe of the WHO broadcast area. Traer would make a good Thursday stop on the way to Iowa City in an even-numbered year.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get Keith Murphy under the Dennis Field arch talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/north-tama-the-smallest-with-11-on-the-field\/\">smallest public school playing 11-man football<\/a>, a decade after a state championship. Scott Siepker can stand at the top of the Winding Stairs talking about Tama Jim Wilson or look at the salt shaker gallery (although there&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/traer-shaker-gallery-featured-on-who\/\">already been a story on that<\/a>).\u00a0Locals will challenge John Sears and Andy Fales to a kolache-eating contest.<\/p>\n<p>An RVTV stop is basically a one-day town festival, so doing it a month after the Winding Stairs Festival could be exhausting. I&#8217;m just the ideas person here. But &#8230; what if?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>^ A highway-related segment from last week&#8217;s RVTV. It&#8217;s obvious that Traer is never going to be a pass-through town on the Register&#8217;s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa because of its lack of county road access. But there is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/rvtv-for-traer-start-the-campaign-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","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=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}