{"id":95,"date":"2010-04-29T13:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/2010\/04\/east-of-the-mississippi-illinois\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:06:19","slug":"east-of-the-mississippi-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/2010\/04\/east-of-the-mississippi-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"East of the Mississippi \/ Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big News! :-) I&#8217;m East of the Mississippi now! Welcome to Illinois! Welcome to W land! The call signs for radio and TV stations changes from K to W once you are east of the Mississippi. Had to take the I-280 over the Mississippi. For some reason the I-80 crossing is closed. The 280\/80 meet up again eventually in Illinois. Also got to the shoreline of the Mississippi on the Iowa side. I collected a &#8220;special&#8221; rock.<br \/>\nThe bridge wasn&#8217;t as huge as was the I-10 bridge in Louisiana. Guess what: First thing which happened in Illinois: A huge green grasshopper hit the windshield. :-) Oh and the weather got warmer too. 79F (26C) and more humid too. Nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_1600_1200_8BBCC547-B460-4BE2-9859-90D2088C5591.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_1600_1200_8BBCC547-B460-4BE2-9859-90D2088C5591.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big News! :-) I&#8217;m East of the Mississippi now! Welcome to Illinois! Welcome to W land! The call signs for radio and TV stations changes from K to W once you are east of the Mississippi. Had to take the I-280 over the Mississippi. For some reason the I-80 crossing is closed. The 280\/80 meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois","category-iowa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}