{"id":12526,"date":"2020-11-16T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12526"},"modified":"2020-11-15T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:39:09","slug":"butter-cow-lady-statue-needs-to-be-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/butter-cow-lady-statue-needs-to-be-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Butter Cow Lady&#8217; statue needs to be restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Toledo, on a hill just north of the US 63\/Business 30 intersection, is a non-butter sculpture from Iowa State Fair Butter Cow sculptor &#8220;Duffy&#8221; Lyon. It is of a cow and her calf. The Aug. 10 derecho ripped the calf&#8217;s head off. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2020\/11\/09\/syc-family-works-to-save-longtime-butter-cow-ladys-cow-calf-sculpture-damaged-in-derecho\/\">KCRG story<\/a>, which I can&#8217;t embed, says that all the pieces have been found, but now the statue needs to be restored and preserved, and that cost will run into the tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>See also this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2020\/11\/09\/toledo-trying-to-find-money-to-fix-iconic-cow-calf-statue\/\">story from Radio Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Toledo, on a hill just north of the US 63\/Business 30 intersection, is a non-butter sculpture from Iowa State Fair Butter Cow sculptor &#8220;Duffy&#8221; Lyon. It is of a cow and her calf. The Aug. 10 derecho ripped the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/butter-cow-lady-statue-needs-to-be-restored\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526","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=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}