{"id":15055,"date":"2023-07-24T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15055"},"modified":"2023-07-23T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T22:31:19","slug":"sandblasting-new-paint-for-winding-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/sandblasting-new-paint-for-winding-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandblasting, new paint for Winding Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15056\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/winding_stairs_jul23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/winding_stairs_jul23.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/winding_stairs_jul23-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/winding_stairs_jul23-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 9, 2023:<\/strong> Crop of a picture of the Winding Stairs, before cleaning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On July 16, Traer&#8217;s iconic Winding Stairs had a refreshment. It wasn&#8217;t a drink, but a full-on sandblast followed by a new coat of paint.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northtamatelegraph.com\/news\/local-news\/2023\/07\/20\/winding-stairs-undergo-a-refresh\/\"><em>North Tama Telegraph<\/em> has the story<\/a>, along with information about restoring the building the staircase is attached to. That building, of course, is the <em>Traer Star-Clipper<\/em> building, which housed the newspaper offices until 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Some local yokel happened to have their picture taken on the stairs the Sunday preceding the cleaning for a writing venture. The introductory post was included in <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawriters.substack.com\/p\/rivers-duct-tape-softball-hardball\">the Iowa Writers&#8217; Collaborative &#8220;roundup&#8221;<\/a> on Sunday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\">Like! Subscribe! Tell your friends and enemies!<\/a>) The photo didn&#8217;t appear, which is fine with me because the fewer pictures there are of me on the Internet, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 9, 2023: Crop of a picture of the Winding Stairs, before cleaning. On July 16, Traer&#8217;s iconic Winding Stairs had a refreshment. It wasn&#8217;t a drink, but a full-on sandblast followed by a new coat of paint. The North &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/sandblasting-new-paint-for-winding-stairs\/\">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-15055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15055","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=15055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15064,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15055\/revisions\/15064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}