{"id":14648,"date":"2023-02-03T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2023-01-31T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:27:40","slug":"vinton-gas-station-rebranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/vinton-gas-station-rebranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinton gas station rebranded"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline is generic, but the story is a little longer.<\/p>\n

John’s Qwik Stop in Vinton, on IA 150, was turned into a Casey’s at the beginning of the year<\/a>. The owner announced his retirement in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gas station at the corner of C Avenue and 9th Street had more food than the regular convenience store fare, including an A&W and Godfather’s Pizza Express.<\/p>\n

When the new Casey’s opened on US 218 a few years ago, its gas station in downtown Vinton (seen in this photo<\/a>) closed, leaving the chain with no presence on 150 in town. The conversion of “JQS” into a Casey’s rectifies that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headline is generic, but the story is a little longer. John’s Qwik Stop in Vinton, on IA 150, was turned into a Casey’s at the beginning of the year. The owner announced his retirement in November. The gas station … 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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","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=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14649,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}