{"id":5208,"date":"2014-08-13T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2014-08-13T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:26:31","slug":"a-short-history-of-the-iowa-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/a-short-history-of-the-iowa-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"A short history of the Iowa DOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Iowa State Daily<\/em> is writing about Ames&#8217; sesquicentennial (150th anniversary). Last week, there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowastatedaily.com\/history\/article_6767085c-1ccf-11e4-8003-001a4bcf887a.html\">a piece about the Iowa Department of Transportation<\/a>, which started out as part of\u00a0Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The Iowa DOT remains unique today because it is a major state agency not located in the state capital, and I don&#8217;t know if there are any other cases of that in the country.<\/p>\n<p>July 1 was the 40th anniversary of the Iowa DOT after 70 years as the Iowa Highway Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa State Daily is writing about Ames&#8217; sesquicentennial (150th anniversary). Last week, there was a piece about the Iowa Department of Transportation, which started out as part of\u00a0Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The Iowa DOT remains &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/a-short-history-of-the-iowa-dot\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","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=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}