{"id":10684,"date":"2025-07-03T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:05:54","slug":"getting-into-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=10684","title":{"rendered":"Getting into Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We arrived in Iowa late afternoon after leaving The House on the Rock.  It was a first time being in that state for both of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3876-1-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We stopped at a scenic overlook to get a different view of the Mighty Mississippi.  It seemed so weird seeing the Mississippi as the borders in states that far north, too.  Very cool. We&#8217;re not sure how often those houses on that strip of land in the middle of the river flood.  I need to do some research on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3882-1-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in Iowa late afternoon after leaving The House on the Rock. It was a first time being in that state for both of us. We stopped at a scenic overlook to get a different view of the Mighty Mississippi. It seemed so weird seeing the Mississippi as the borders in states that far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}