{"id":8487,"date":"2017-03-20T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2017-03-19T16:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:35:58","slug":"947-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/947-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"947. Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8488\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PalmerFDMrack.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PalmerFDMrack.jpg 340w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PalmerFDMrack-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>March 20, 2003:<\/strong> A <\/em>Fort Dodge Messenger<em> newsrack in Palmer announces the beginning of U.S. military action in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years and five ISU men&#8217;s basketball coaches ago, I took my first solo multi-day trip to photograph Iowa highways.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer was the first town on March 20, 2003, that I had never been to before. I have not been back since. That makes it my least-recently-visited town in Iowa.\u00a0But I was glad I got there, because a month later <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia315.html\">IA 315 was decommissioned<\/a> (Pocahontas County signed agreements before the mass turnover later that year).<\/p>\n<p>One of these days I&#8217;ll get back and see what things look like now. But that will be part of plans yet to be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20, 2003: A Fort Dodge Messenger newsrack in Palmer announces the beginning of U.S. military action in Iraq. Fourteen years and five ISU men&#8217;s basketball coaches ago, I took my first solo multi-day trip to photograph Iowa highways. Palmer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/947-palmer\/\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","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=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}