{"id":8779,"date":"2017-05-31T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2017-05-30T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:08:17","slug":"walnut-mcdonalds-closed-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/walnut-mcdonalds-closed-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnut McDonald&#8217;s closed for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McDonald&#8217;s at I-80 exit 46 in western Iowa closed permanently April 17. I found out first-hand, but it slipped my mind for about a month. It didn&#8217;t have great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/ShowUserReviews-g38495-d4615416-r477855843-McDonald_s-Walnut_Iowa.html\">reviews on TripAdvisor<\/a>, for whatever that&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>The closure is surprising to me because it is the first fast food place on westbound I-80 after Stuart, which in turn has the first fast food on I-80 west of the Jordan Creek Parkway exit. That will slightly change in the mid-term when the <del>Alice&#8217;s Road<\/del> Grand Prairie Parkway exit gets developed, but still, that&#8217;s 75 (and now more) miles of interstate with only one exit for fast food.<\/p>\n<p>A McDonald&#8217;s\/Love&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/money\/new-shelby-iowa-travel-stop-includes-mcdonald-s-chester-s\/article_967a7e3c-2a0b-11e4-aa22-0017a43b2370.html\">opened in August 2014<\/a> at the Shelby exit, 12 miles west. That could have been a factor. Even so, that place plus the truck stop and Subway at Avoca are the only food places directly on the interstate between Council Bluffs and Stuart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McDonald&#8217;s at I-80 exit 46 in western Iowa closed permanently April 17. I found out first-hand, but it slipped my mind for about a month. It didn&#8217;t have great reviews on TripAdvisor, for whatever that&#8217;s worth. The closure is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/walnut-mcdonalds-closed-for-good\/\">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-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}