{"id":9310,"date":"2017-11-02T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2017-10-31T00:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T05:28:58","slug":"bridge-fest-the-last-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/bridge-fest-the-last-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bridge Fest &#8211; The Last Drive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9311\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SabulaBridgeMiddlePier.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SabulaBridgeMiddlePier.jpg 670w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SabulaBridgeMiddlePier-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 27, 2015:<\/strong> A boat passes under the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/us52.html\">US 52\/IA 64 Savanna-Sabula bridge<\/a>. A new bridge has been built immediately downstream (foreground) over the past two years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The easternmost bridge in Iowa had a &#8220;closing ceremony&#8221; Oct. 21. A parade of vintage and antique cars led the way across the bridge weeks before its successor is scheduled to open. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwqc.com\/content\/news\/Community-says-goodbye-to-historic-Savanna-Sabula-bridge-452191803.html\">Story: KWQC<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/qctimes.com\/news\/local\/photos-bridge-fest-savanna-sabula-bridge\/collection_12913e79-518a-5e41-9e9f-3fa05e557558.html#1\">photo gallery<\/a>: <em>Quad-City Times<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycarrollcountynews.com\/news\/article_c3ca3148-ba5e-11e7-8d91-af806b3e5497.html?mode=image&amp;photo=0\">head-on photo<\/a>, <em>Carroll County News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The new bridge&#8217;s opening date has been set for Nov. 11 \u2013 Veterans Day \u2014 and it will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycarrollcountynews.com\/news\/article_c1f71146-9412-11e7-ab36-8bddaadb3c8d.html\">named for Savanna native Dale Gardner<\/a>, a Navy captain who became an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kwqc.com\/templates\/2015_Sub_Video_Share?contentObj=452191803\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 2015: A boat passes under the US 52\/IA 64 Savanna-Sabula bridge. A new bridge has been built immediately downstream (foreground) over the past two years. The easternmost bridge in Iowa had a &#8220;closing ceremony&#8221; Oct. 21. A parade &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/bridge-fest-the-last-drive\/\">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-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310","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=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}