{"id":3772,"date":"2013-08-19T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:44:48","slug":"on-old-us-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/on-old-us-6\/","title":{"rendered":"On old US 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad-City Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/qctimes.com\/news\/local\/historic-route-classic-car-trip-starts-here\/article_e011b428-7be8-51d8-9cc0-cbb727de6dec.html\">an article on David Darby<\/a>, who has led the effort to get old US 6 signed through parts of Iowa. It may be a little much to say he\u00a0&#8220;found the old route through all these towns in Iowa,&#8221; since a 1979 map would show the pre-I-80 route except for between Atlantic and Adair. However, that would depend on <em>how<\/em> &#8220;original&#8221; he wants to get. (As I think I said earlier, &#8220;Historic US 32&#8221; would have been neat as well, but calling it old 6 ties it more into the cross-country road.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the U of I Library&#8217;s online publication of Huebinger guides, the 1912 River-to-River Route can be traced today, and I did part of that this summer. The River-to-River became US 6 east of Des Moines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad-City Times has an article on David Darby, who has led the effort to get old US 6 signed through parts of Iowa. It may be a little much to say he\u00a0&#8220;found the old route through all these towns &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/on-old-us-6\/\">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-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","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=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}