{"id":12321,"date":"2020-08-27T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12321"},"modified":"2020-08-25T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:37:47","slug":"big-t-maid-rite-has-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/big-t-maid-rite-has-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Big T Maid-Rite has closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another item lost in the shuffle: The Big T Maid-Rite in Toledo, at the corner of (Business) US 30 and US 63 since that intersection opened in the mid-1950s, is gone for good.<\/p>\n

The restaurant went from being forced closed by the governor to operations ended over five days in March.\u00a0The announcement that it would not return was made in late July and the\u00a0Tama-Toledo News Chronicle\u00a0(their new consolidated paper)\u00a0covered it August 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Big T had a classic lunch counter in the middle and an annex that was a popular place for presidential candidates to stop during caucus season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another item lost in the shuffle: The Big T Maid-Rite in Toledo, at the corner of (Business) US 30 and US 63 since that intersection opened in the mid-1950s, is gone for good. The restaurant went from being forced closed … Continue reading →<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321","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=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}