{"id":6255,"date":"2015-06-22T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6255"},"modified":"2015-06-30T01:59:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:59:15","slug":"missouri-trip-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/missouri-trip-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri trip Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A recap of last summer&#8217;s sojourn down, across, up, diagonally through, and then up again in Missouri. First up, a short report, on a day spent traveling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ava, Missouri, June 22, 2014 \u2014<\/strong> I mostly followed US 65 down to I-44, with one small hiccup: It was closed between Lucas and IA 2, so I went via Chariton and Cambria. After Sedalia, I was on a part of 65 I hadn\u2019t been before. It was relatively early by the time I got to Springfield, so I bypassed it on I-44 and MO 360 turned eastward on US 60. I got to Mansfield and turned south to add another county not just to duck in and out, but stay overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton MO, at US 65\/136, has a really new Casey\u2019s. A woman in front of me bought cigarettes and scratch tickets \u2014 \u201cthose numbers are the only thing I\u2019m superstitious about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I entered four new counties, but not one of them had a name unique to my travels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6256\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/65MOline.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/65MOline.jpg 500w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/65MOline-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Guess what season it is.<\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6257\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Testy.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Good ol&#8217; <del>Rocky Mountain<\/del> Northern Ozark Oysters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6258\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jct60from360.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jct60from360.jpg 500w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jct60from360-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Although US 60 has been upgraded to four lanes across southern Missouri, at Springfield it reverts to being a lesser route, and MO 360 serves as the four-lane connecting it to I-44.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of last summer&#8217;s sojourn down, across, up, diagonally through, and then up again in Missouri. First up, a short report, on a day spent traveling. Ava, Missouri, June 22, 2014 \u2014 I mostly followed US 65 down to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/missouri-trip-day-1\/\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","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=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}