{"id":6591,"date":"2015-09-17T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2015-09-17T00:46:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T05:46:39","slug":"us-20-enthusiast-inspires-cushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/us-20-enthusiast-inspires-cushing\/","title":{"rendered":"US 20 enthusiast inspires Cushing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about (and met) Bryan Farr of Massachusetts, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/historicus20.com\/\">tirelessly promoting US 20<\/a> as a tourism destination and vehicle for economic development. He&#8217;s back in Iowa this week to visit the town of Cushing. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/lifestyles\/local\/vision-author-aims-to-showcase-historic-u-s\/article_a7b0b0a9-d309-534e-9359-4bceb0b96b52.html \">interviewed there by the <em>Sioux City Journal<\/em><\/a> during his cross-country trip last year. After that, <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/columnists\/gallagher\/gallagher-author-grateful-an-old-highway-effort-gets-rolling-in\/article_5179ae0e-5807-5a17-babb-8450d4446e9f.html \">the town formed the &#8220;Old 20 Community Development Corporation,&#8221;<\/a> geared toward the exact kind of thing Farr is encouraging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.old20cdc.com\/\">The group now has a website.<\/a>\u00a0In addition to being a general-interest city website, it&#8217;s also promoting\u00a0Woodbury County Rural Economic Development initiatives to get people and businesses to call Cushing home. The town may be on &#8220;old 20&#8221; but by the end of the decade it will be right beside a four-lane connection to both sides of Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about (and met) Bryan Farr of Massachusetts, who is tirelessly promoting US 20 as a tourism destination and vehicle for economic development. He&#8217;s back in Iowa this week to visit the town of Cushing. He was interviewed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/us-20-enthusiast-inspires-cushing\/\">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-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","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=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}