{"id":2558,"date":"2012-11-15T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2012-11-21T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:52:10","slug":"us-20-link-opens-before-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/us-20-link-opens-before-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"US 20 link opens before ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2559\" title=\"us20clip1938\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/us20clip1938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/us20clip1938.jpg 585w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/us20clip1938-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The last pieces of US 20 in the state to be paved, in 1938, are also the last pieces to be bypassed, nearly 75 years later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a slight twist on the usual process. New 20 is going to open before the ribbon cutting. From the Iowa DOT, emphasis theirs:<\/p>\n<p><em>The newly completed segment begins at the intersection with Iowa 4 near Rockwell City in Calhoun County and continues west to U.S. 71 near Early in Sac County.\u00a0<strong>The road is scheduled to open to traffic Monday, Nov. 19, at noon.\u00a0<\/strong>The celebratory event will follow on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That celebratory event begins at 10 AM.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note: Yikes. That means, for me, VERY early driving. Maybe the governor would let me carpool with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last pieces of US 20 in the state to be paved, in 1938, are also the last pieces to be bypassed, nearly 75 years later. This is a slight twist on the usual process. New 20 is going to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/us-20-link-opens-before-ceremony\/\">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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}