{"id":15600,"date":"2024-07-12T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15600"},"modified":"2024-07-11T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T04:24:08","slug":"60th-anniversary-of-walcott-truck-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/60th-anniversary-of-walcott-truck-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"60th anniversary of Walcott truck stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The location now known as the Iowa 80 Truckstop, or the &#8220;World\u2019s Largest Truckstop&#8221;, opened at the Walcott exit on I-80 six decades ago. It is also the 45th anniversary of the Truckers Jamboree there. Stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/news\/worlds-largest-truckstop-marks-60-years-on-interstate-80\/\"><em>Quad-City Times <\/em>via<em> Cedar Rapids Gazette<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrucker.com\/trucking-news\/the-nation\/drivers-roll-in-to-the-iowa-80-to-celebrate-45th-anniversary-truckers-jamboree\">&#8220;The Trucker&#8221; news website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwqc.com\/2024\/07\/11\/walcott-truckers-jamboree-kicks-off-with-beauty-pageant-porkchops\/\">KWQC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/news\/local\/iowa-80-truck-jamboree-60th-anniversary\/526-41eca72e-29a0-41f0-94d7-62925bf32412\">WQAD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourquadcities.com\/news\/local-news\/walcott-truckers-jamboree-60-years-of-celebrating-americas-truckers\/\">WHBF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The location now known as the Iowa 80 Truckstop, or the &#8220;World\u2019s Largest Truckstop&#8221;, opened at the Walcott exit on I-80 six decades ago. It is also the 45th anniversary of the Truckers Jamboree there. Stories: Quad-City Times via Cedar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/60th-anniversary-of-walcott-truck-stop\/\">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-15600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15600","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=15600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15601,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15600\/revisions\/15601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}