{"id":6872,"date":"2015-12-15T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2015-12-14T22:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T04:39:02","slug":"a-sense-of-humor-the-dot-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/a-sense-of-humor-the-dot-has\/","title":{"rendered":"A sense of humor, the DOT has"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers on major Iowa highways yesterday were greeted with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/government\/let-the-wookie-win-iowa-dot-invokes-star-wars-for-highway-safety-20151214\">a batch of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;-related messages<\/a> encouraging good traffic safety practices.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know &#8220;Star Wars Episode VII&#8221; comes out Friday? (he typed, while a Star Wars-themed Ford commercial played on TV). If the Force is indeed awakening, please, try not to spoil it for me. It&#8217;s not a spoiler to know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/comments\/3qvj6w\">Jar-Jar Binks was supposed to be the true villain<\/a>\u00a0of the prequels.<\/p>\n<p>At least one Star Wars movie has debuted during five of the six most recent presidents&#8217; terms (George H.W. Bush fell in the 16-year gap between <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em> and <em>Phantom Menace<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers on major Iowa highways yesterday were greeted with a batch of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;-related messages encouraging good traffic safety practices. Did you know &#8220;Star Wars Episode VII&#8221; comes out Friday? (he typed, while a Star Wars-themed Ford commercial played on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/a-sense-of-humor-the-dot-has\/\">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-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}