{"id":11588,"date":"2019-12-12T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2019-12-07T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T15:50:50","slug":"2019-the-year-in-food-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-4\/","title":{"rendered":"2019: The Year in Food (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11589\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigverns.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigverns.jpg 560w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigverns-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. 10-ounce New York Strip, Big Vern&#8217;s Steakhouse, Shamrock, Texas (July 21)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigvernssteakhouse.weebly.com\/menu.html\">More steak in Texas?<\/a>\u00a0More steak in Texas, this time in a town with a population that has fallen below 2000 and whose famous landmarks are the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/features\/our-town\/our-town-shamrock-the-tallest-water-tower-in-texas\">tallest water tower in Texas<\/a>\u00a0and a Route 66 gas station whose design inspired a location in\u00a0<em>Cars<\/em>.\u00a0Plus, the murals on the walls were amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Time Zone trip BACK: 7 new counties, 4 Route 66 hot spots, 4 state US route clinches (OK US 169, KS US 169, KS US 75, NE US 75), 2 state I-40 clinches (Texas, and then the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.gov\/odot\/I40_Crosstown_2.html\">new part in Oklahoma City<\/a>), 1 atomic bomb pair replica, 1 previously visited state capitol photographed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mcjerry66.com\/\">1 Route 66 book author<\/a>\u00a0(after meeting his wife the day before!),\u00a00 New Mexico state flags (Really,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clinescorners.com\/\">Clines Corners<\/a>?\u00a0<em>Really?<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11590\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/shamrockstation.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/shamrockstation.jpg 700w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/shamrockstation-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>More art deco fangirling?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.roadtrippers.com\/stories\/u-drop-inn\">More art deco fangirling.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4. 10-ounce New York Strip, Big Vern&#8217;s Steakhouse, Shamrock, Texas (July 21) More steak in Texas?\u00a0More steak in Texas, this time in a town with a population that has fallen below 2000 and whose famous landmarks are the\u00a0tallest water tower &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-4\/\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","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=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11654,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions\/11654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}