{"id":2498,"date":"2012-10-31T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:33:19","slug":"a-longstanding-error-corrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-longstanding-error-corrected\/","title":{"rendered":"A longstanding error corrected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, when I was making a new map for Wapsie Valley for a directions booklet, I erred in the directions from Traer. I wrote &#8220;US 20 W&#8221; instead of &#8220;E&#8221;. While a minor thing, I feel it&#8217;s only right to fess up to such a long oversight.<\/p>\n<p>I had occasion to revisit the issue because North Tama plays at Wapsie Valley Friday. The school isn&#8217;t at Fairbank, but at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ll=42.681931,-92.140789&amp;spn=0.047827,0.065317&amp;t=m&amp;z=14\">intersection of county roads V56 and C50 southeast of Readlyn.<\/a>\u00a0(In addition, I reversed the order of direction alternatives on the page. There&#8217;s little need to take US 63 through Waterloo when US 20 and V49 are much faster.)<\/p>\n<p>The entire booklet, detailing locations of dozens of schools in eastern and central Iowa, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/2012SchoolBooklet.pdf\">can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, when I was making a new map for Wapsie Valley for a directions booklet, I erred in the directions from Traer. I wrote &#8220;US 20 W&#8221; instead of &#8220;E&#8221;. While a minor thing, I feel it&#8217;s only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-longstanding-error-corrected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}