{"id":8421,"date":"2017-03-04T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2017-03-04T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T17:43:42","slug":"area-man-featured-for-longtime-pursuit-of-weird-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/area-man-featured-for-longtime-pursuit-of-weird-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Area man featured for longtime pursuit of weird accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen online, the <em>Des Moines Register&#8217;s<\/em> Kyle Munson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/columnists\/kyle-munson\/2017\/03\/02\/road-geek-has-visited-all-947-iowa-towns-and-driven-every-highway-mile-but-1\/98563312\/\">interviewed me about my travels and wrote a column about it.<\/a>\u00a0He even called back to the 2001 essay I wrote as a member of the Register&#8217;s Young Adult Board of Contributors.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in today&#8217;s (Saturday&#8217;s) print edition. It includes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/counties\/user-gifs\/jeffm.gif\">my county map <\/a>created at <a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\">mob-rule.com<\/a>, but of course, that map will change in the future. I offered a batch of Iowa photos, but the map better shows off what I&#8217;ve done nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen online, the Des Moines Register&#8217;s Kyle Munson interviewed me about my travels and wrote a column about it.\u00a0He even called back to the 2001 essay I wrote as a member of the Register&#8217;s Young Adult &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/area-man-featured-for-longtime-pursuit-of-weird-accomplishment\/\">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":[13,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","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=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}