{"id":6211,"date":"2015-06-11T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2015-06-11T00:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T05:12:31","slug":"beautiful-land-all-8883-miles-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/beautiful-land-all-8883-miles-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful land. All 8,883 miles of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6224\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/End1Clinchsm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>June 8, 2015, 6:49 PM:<\/strong> The end of a journey years in the making.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Between March 20, 2003, and June 8, 2015, I traveled every mile of every current state, US, and interstate highway in Iowa at least once. (Some of those I traveled many, many more times.) My final segments were the IA 92 reroute onto the Muscatine bypass and IA 1 from Mount Vernon to its north end. Below is a small distillation of those thousands of miles, but it&#8217;s not just about the signs. It&#8217;s also about the towns, the scenery, the people, and the history those highways connect.<\/p>\n<p>The trip has been long, and it has been rewarding. It&#8217;s also not really over, because the Iowa highway system continues to change. (Jason Hancock accomplished this same task a year and two weeks ago.)<\/p>\n<p>You ask what land I love the best? Iowa, &#8217;tis Iowa.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/about\/Roads,Streets,andBridges.html\">(number referenced in headline from here)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6222\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/alltraveledcollage.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/alltraveledcollage.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/alltraveledcollage-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 8, 2015, 6:49 PM: The end of a journey years in the making. Between March 20, 2003, and June 8, 2015, I traveled every mile of every current state, US, and interstate highway in Iowa at least once. (Some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/beautiful-land-all-8883-miles-of-it\/\">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":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","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=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}