{"id":16247,"date":"2026-04-09T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:58:34","slug":"governor-larrabee-and-clermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/governor-larrabee-and-clermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Larrabee and Clermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of February, far northeast Iowa got some snow. The divide between Arlington, which had nothing, and Clermont, which had light flakes, was stark.<\/p>\n<p>The weather added some flavor to pictures I took at Montauk, the historic mansion of Iowa Gov. William Larrabee. At the Clermont Opera House, <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/governor-larrabees-legacy-unearthed\">a lecture was given about archaeological excavations at the Montauk site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/governor-larrabees-legacy-unearthed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16248\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_larrabee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_larrabee.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_larrabee-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_larrabee-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of February, far northeast Iowa got some snow. The divide between Arlington, which had nothing, and Clermont, which had light flakes, was stark. The weather added some flavor to pictures I took at Montauk, the historic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/governor-larrabee-and-clermont\/\">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-16247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247","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=16247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}