{"id":11736,"date":"2020-01-08T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:14:16","slug":"hardin-county-courthouse-closes-the-front-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/hardin-county-courthouse-closes-the-front-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardin County Courthouse closes the front door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11737\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hardin_courthouse_front.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hardin_courthouse_front.jpg 530w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hardin_courthouse_front-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><br \/>\nApril 4, 2006: <\/b>This view of the stately Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora now needs a notice at the top of the steps: Please use side door.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Iowa Falls Times-Citizen<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescitizen.com\/news\/courthouse-to-employ-single-entry-point\/article_16c18ece-114b-11ea-97f1-d3ecb87d8dd8.html\">two paragraphs, anyway<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioonthego.com\/news\/read_news\/contentdetails\/114536\">KLMJ\/KQCR Radio<\/a>\u00a0report that starting last week, there is only one entrance to the 127-year-old courthouse. Everyone has to go to an east entrance that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@42.3602953,-93.0995333,3a,75y,94.86h,94.67t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s1Ri9O6IljahjRqHiLhnZRQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D1Ri9O6IljahjRqHiLhnZRQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D142.16954%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656\">as shown in this frame from Google Street View<\/a>, didn&#8217;t exist five years ago. The T-C <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescitizen.com\/news\/courthouse-to-employ-single-entry-point\/article_16c18ece-114b-11ea-97f1-d3ecb87d8dd8.html\">leaves open the possibility <\/a>of a future metal detector.<\/p>\n<p>As in all such cases, metaphors about architecture, government openness, and security are left as exercises for the reader.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 1\/13: Fixed\/updated radio link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 2006: This view of the stately Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora now needs a notice at the top of the steps: Please use side door. The Iowa Falls Times-Citizen (two paragraphs, anyway) and KLMJ\/KQCR Radio\u00a0report that starting last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/hardin-county-courthouse-closes-the-front-door\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736","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=11736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11753,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}