{"id":214,"date":"2011-08-20T01:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T06:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-09-01T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:44:59","slug":"lansing-bridge-closed-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/lansing-bridge-closed-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Lansing bridge closed a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxow.com\/story\/15292970\/lansing-bridge-remains-closed\">WXOW<\/a> (with video):<\/p>\n<p><em>A bridge over the Mississippi river between Lansing, Iowa and De Soto, Wisconsin remains closed &#8212; due to a crack in the floor beam under the bridge deck.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Iowa Department of Transportation says the bridge on Iowa Highway 9 closed on Wednesday after the crack was discovered during a regular inspection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a major inconvenience because the nearest bridges are 30 miles in either direction. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnweeks.com\/river_mississippi\/pagesA\/umissA06.html\">John Weeks <\/a>believes that existing (low) traffic levels and the cost of a new bridge mean that if this bridge ever has to close for good, that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WXOW (with video): A bridge over the Mississippi river between Lansing, Iowa and De Soto, Wisconsin remains closed &#8212; due to a crack in the floor beam under the bridge deck. The Iowa Department of Transportation says the bridge on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/lansing-bridge-closed-a-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}