{"id":8165,"date":"2016-12-30T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2016-12-30T01:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T07:04:47","slug":"the-final-countdown-1-klemme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-final-countdown-1-klemme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Countdown: 1. Klemme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8166\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FC_KlemmeSign.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FC_KlemmeSign.jpg 480w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FC_KlemmeSign-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 4, 2016:<\/strong> The sign on US 69 at old IA 179, Main Street into Klemme. County Road B55 is a quarter-mile north.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Compared to nearly all the rest of my final 50 towns or so, Klemme&#8217;s population of 507 made it practically a city. It got a day all for itself after I left Algona, taking old US 18 part of the way there. It shares many traits with other towns of its size. The open businesses were the post office, a bar, and a gas station doing double duty as a grocery store. <a href=\"http:\/\/theleaderonline.net\/content\/reliance-state-bank-close-klemme-branch \">Klemme had lost its bank 11 months earlier.<\/a>\u00a0And the school building on the edge of town is abandoned, closed in 2000, a decade after losing the high school to Belmond.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8213\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FC_KlemmeBank.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FC_KlemmeBank.jpg 575w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FC_KlemmeBank-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The former bank in Klemme.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was in town for less than an hour, mostly around the school. When I departed during the noon hour, I was off to Forest City to get a tour of the Winnebago manufacturing facilities.<\/p>\n<p>No fanfare, no selfies, just a note of personal recognition backed up by record-keeping and now this blog post. <strong><em>I have been to every incorporated place in Iowa.<\/em><\/strong> I don&#8217;t know if anyone else can say that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 4, 2016: The sign on US 69 at old IA 179, Main Street into Klemme. County Road B55 is a quarter-mile north. Compared to nearly all the rest of my final 50 towns or so, Klemme&#8217;s population of 507 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-final-countdown-1-klemme\/\">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":[18,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-sequences","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","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=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}