{"id":6658,"date":"2015-12-29T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2015-12-28T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T21:45:55","slug":"year-in-review-completion-of-us-20-in-illinois-and-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/year-in-review-completion-of-us-20-in-illinois-and-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in review: Completion of US 20 in Illinois and Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6891 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/US122045Chicago.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>October 9, 2015:<\/strong>\u00a0US 12\/20\/45 share the road for a while on Mannheim (not Steamroller) Road.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In October I went after one of the more prominent missing segments in my highway travels: US 20 between Rockford and about Portage, Indiana. I felt an urge\/obligation to do it because 20, of course, goes through Iowa, and is one of the major highways of the country.<\/p>\n<p>I never intend to do that again, especially within an hour and a half of rush hour. Let&#8217;s just say, mistakes were made, and attempting to drive US 20 through the Chicago area should only be done if at all on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>FORTY-FIVE MINUTES TO GO TEN MILES HOW DO YOU PEOPLE LIVE LIKE THIS<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no place like home.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have now traveled all of US 20 from US 81 to the Indiana\/Ohio line, at least until the new four-lane is built in western Iowa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 9, 2015:\u00a0US 12\/20\/45 share the road for a while on Mannheim (not Steamroller) Road. In October I went after one of the more prominent missing segments in my highway travels: US 20 between Rockford and about Portage, Indiana. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/year-in-review-completion-of-us-20-in-illinois-and-indiana\/\">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-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","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=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}