{"id":7932,"date":"2016-09-19T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2016-09-16T01:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:37:52","slug":"grand-avenue-bridge-closes-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/grand-avenue-bridge-closes-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Avenue bridge closes today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Avenue bridge across the Des Moines River closes today for demolition and replacement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/des-moines\/2016\/09\/15\/downtown-des-moines-busiest-bridge-closes-monday-replacement\/90330742\/\">the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> reports<\/a>. The bridge, built in 1918, was a key link in Iowa&#8217;s early highway system. It wasn&#8217;t part of the first version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/autotrails\/rivertoriverroad.html\">River-to-River Road<\/a> (the RRR used Locust Street between 7th and East 9th streets in a 1910 guide), but by the mid-1920s, after the bridge was built, it was on the route that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighways.org\/highways\/desmoines.html\">became US 32 and then US 6.<\/a>\u00a0The four major street bridges in downtown Des Moines were built in a decade-long span in the early 20th century, the <em>Register<\/em> article notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Avenue bridge across the Des Moines River closes today for demolition and replacement, the Des Moines Register reports. The bridge, built in 1918, was a key link in Iowa&#8217;s early highway system. It wasn&#8217;t part of the first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/grand-avenue-bridge-closes-today\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932","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=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}