{"id":6186,"date":"2015-06-05T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T05:03:37","slug":"kyle-munsons-iowa-history-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/kyle-munsons-iowa-history-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Munson&#8217;s Iowa history road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6187\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hooverhouse.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hooverhouse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hooverhouse-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 16, 2012:<\/strong> Birthplace Cottage at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch. Like most famous Iowans, Hoover left the state before anyone recognized him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In last Sunday&#8217;s Des Moines Register, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/kyle-munson\/2015\/05\/30\/munson-iowa-history-road-trip-decade\/28231223\/\">Kyle Munson picked 18 landmarks across Iowa to represent the state&#8217;s history<\/a>. Many of them are familiar but each tells a different part of the Iowa story.<\/p>\n<p>My personal score is three as a student (I think), eight as an adult*, five not at all, and two halves: the Surf Ballroom but not the crash site, and the John Wayne birthplace house but not the museum that <em>just<\/em> opened.<\/p>\n<p>(As a passing reference to his passing reference, I don&#8217;t think Munson ever finished the 100-county-seat &#8220;shortest route&#8221; trip set, either.)<\/p>\n<p>*I find it difficult to care too much about the sculpture garden, and think enclosing and air-conditioning the Varied Industries Building was both a better architectural achievement and more useful to Iowans. And let&#8217;s not forget the Des Moines Art Center bought a piece of &#8220;artwork&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/135040\/have-a-nice-day-jeff-koons-and-the-end-of-art\/\">consisting of three vacuum cleaners stacked vertically.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 16, 2012: Birthplace Cottage at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch. Like most famous Iowans, Hoover left the state before anyone recognized him. In last Sunday&#8217;s Des Moines Register, Kyle Munson picked 18 landmarks across Iowa to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/kyle-munsons-iowa-history-road-trip\/\">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-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}