{"id":6402,"date":"2015-07-31T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:52:15","slug":"largest-ice-cream-cone-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/largest-ice-cream-cone-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Largest ice cream cone in the world&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6424\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ackleycone.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ackleycone.jpg 390w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ackleycone-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 22, 2015: <\/strong>Downtown Ackley during RAGBRAI. Anyone for ice cream?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One highlight from last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ragbrai.com\/2015\/07\/22\/ackleys-claim-to-fame-20-feet-of-ice-cream\/\">RAGBRAI on Wednesday<\/a> was a <a href=\"http:\/\/eldoranewspapers.com\/?q=content\/giant-ice-cream-cone-debuts-ackley\">giant ice cream cone in Ackley<\/a>. Inside, the owners serve, what else, ice cream!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it would take to get an official &#8220;state&#8217;s\/nation&#8217;s\/world&#8217;s largest&#8221; title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/giant-ice-cream-cone-debuts-in-iowa\/34066066\">but the creator said on KCCI<\/a> he&#8217;s going with a self-proclaimed title. At least, until someone says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6425\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ackleypigs.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ackleypigs.jpg 560w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ackleypigs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ackley&#8217;s theme was &#8220;I Like Pig Butts and I Cannot Lie&#8221; and these costumed characters helped spread the word.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 22, 2015: Downtown Ackley during RAGBRAI. Anyone for ice cream? One highlight from last week&#8217;s RAGBRAI on Wednesday was a giant ice cream cone in Ackley. Inside, the owners serve, what else, ice cream! I don&#8217;t know what it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/largest-ice-cream-cone-in-the-world\/\">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-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12093,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/12093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}