{"id":7805,"date":"2016-08-08T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2016-08-05T00:09:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T05:09:05","slug":"knoxville-gets-explanation-for-interchange-sign-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/knoxville-gets-explanation-for-interchange-sign-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Knoxville gets explanation for interchange sign change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kniakrls.com\/2016\/07\/iowa-dot-offers-explanation-for-change-in-highway-5-signage\/\">And it&#8217;s in line with what I said was the case.<\/a>\u00a0The Iowa DOT&#8217;s goal in the stripped-down and genericized signs at exits is to reduce the &#8220;pieces of information&#8221; offered to the driver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/Oct10\/5_92_nblgs_oct10.jpg\" width=\"335\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The old sign (seen above) has eight discrete pieces of information: Knoxville is ahead, Knoxville is 2 miles away, etc. The replacement sign, which points only to Indianola and Oskaloosa with no numbers, has two discrete pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s in line with what I said was the case.\u00a0The Iowa DOT&#8217;s goal in the stripped-down and genericized signs at exits is to reduce the &#8220;pieces of information&#8221; offered to the driver. The old sign (seen above) has eight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/knoxville-gets-explanation-for-interchange-sign-change\/\">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-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805","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=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7806,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}