{"id":2649,"date":"2012-11-28T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:31:09","slug":"traffic-jam-on-i-435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/traffic-jam-on-i-435\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic jam on I-435"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The push by some to get the Des Moines beltway designated an interstate has been met with push-back from farmers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20121128\/NEWS\/311280039\/-1\/SPORTSstories\/Farmers-argue-against-interstate-designation-beltway\">as the Des Moines Register reports.<\/a>\u00a0This post&#8217;s title alludes to both my preferred name for the beltway and the notion that an Iowa traffic jam consists of 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor. (I was in one last Wednesday!)<\/p>\n<p>If there IS a genuine desire to get interstate status, it would make less sense for IA 435 to be designated now, since the signs would be short-lived. In the meantime, though, the beltway still has two designations, each going the opposite direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The push by some to get the Des Moines beltway designated an interstate has been met with push-back from farmers, as the Des Moines Register reports.\u00a0This post&#8217;s title alludes to both my preferred name for the beltway and the notion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/traffic-jam-on-i-435\/\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}