{"id":2988,"date":"2013-02-19T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:02:07","slug":"iowa-dot-photo-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/iowa-dot-photo-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa DOT Photo of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the centennial year of the Iowa Highway Commission\/Iowa Department of Transportation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/history\/photooftheweek.html#.USO4zM3NCJk\">a historical &#8220;Photo of the Week&#8221; is being posted online<\/a>. I have added a link in the blogroll.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo is the most obvious choice, and probably THE photo of the first decade of roads in Iowa: A Model T working through axle-deep ruts on a muddy Lincoln Highway in Story County in 1918. Conditions like this were the basis for the Good Roads Movement in Iowa. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=l1lYAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA612&amp;lpg=PA612#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">A piece about the movement written for <em>American Motorist<\/em> magazine six years before that can be read via Google.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the centennial year of the Iowa Highway Commission\/Iowa Department of Transportation, a historical &#8220;Photo of the Week&#8221; is being posted online. I have added a link in the blogroll. The first photo is the most obvious choice, and probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/iowa-dot-photo-of-the-week\/\">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-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}