{"id":1812,"date":"2011-07-09T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2017-12-02T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:12:39","slug":"iowa-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A pitchfork like this is something you would expect to find in Iowa. And it&#8217;s a beauty. Created by Clarence Martin in 2003 it stands next to the Custom Steel Service building. If you look closely you can see the strings of lights wrapping about the sculpture. I was there in the daylight and don&#8217;t know if it is lit up at night or only for special occassions. If anyone from Ames,\u00a0 Iowa knows, <a href=\"mailto:Jim.Hejl@jimsbigthings.com\">send me a note.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1814\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1814\" data-attachment-id=\"1814\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=1814\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?fit=1440%2C3049\" data-orig-size=\"1440,3049\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A520&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1310223921&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.8125&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iowa Pitchfork\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;11fork&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Iowa Pitchfork&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?fit=142%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?fit=484%2C1024\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?resize=142%2C300\" alt=\"pitchfork\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?resize=142%2C300 142w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?resize=484%2C1024 484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?resize=71%2C150 71w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11fork.jpg?w=1440 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iowa Pitchfork<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pitchfork like this is something you would expect to find in Iowa. And it&#8217;s a beauty. Created by Clarence Martin in 2003 it stands next to the Custom Steel Service building. If you look closely you can see the strings of lights wrapping about the sculpture. I was there \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1812\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,49],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-te","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}