{"id":15978,"date":"2025-08-15T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:35:43","slug":"a-classic-car-story-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-classic-car-story-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"A classic car story with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could get the car associated with your childhood memories back? And it was in approximate driving condition? Well, when I went to Conrad&#8217;s Black Dirt Days in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-family-touchstone-an-american-ride\">I found someone who did just that.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-family-touchstone-an-american-ride\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15979\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_conradcar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_conradcar.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_conradcar-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_conradcar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could get the car associated with your childhood memories back? And it was in approximate driving condition? Well, when I went to Conrad&#8217;s Black Dirt Days in June, I found someone who did just that.<\/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-15978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978","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=15978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16000,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}