{"id":340,"date":"2011-07-21T02:18:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/\/?p=340"},"modified":"2018-06-05T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T01:11:28","slug":"clinton-iowa-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Iowa Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made our way through Minnesota to the Mississippi River and took a right planning to follow this Mighty River down to the Quad Cities. Along the way we were passing through Jan&#8217;s home town of Clinton, Iowa. This city was a treat, much larger than I imagined with a nice riverfront park. Just south of downtown we spotted this Big Chicken. While he is a pretty common variety of Big Chicken he does advertise Angelo&#8217;s Pizza &amp; Pasta at the corner of 11th Ave S and S 4th Street. Angelo&#8217;s was closed when we stopped or I might have stopped for a slice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_410\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-410\" data-attachment-id=\"410\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=410\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?fit=1481%2C2194\" data-orig-size=\"1481,2194\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A520&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1311250019&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;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"11chick2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG_1266&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Clinton, Iowa Chicken&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?fit=145%2C215\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?fit=494%2C732\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2-202x300.jpg?resize=202%2C300\" alt=\"chikc 2\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?resize=202%2C300 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?resize=691%2C1024 691w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?resize=101%2C150 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11chick2.jpg?w=1481 1481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clinton, Iowa Chicken<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made our way through Minnesota to the Mississippi River and took a right planning to follow this Mighty River down to the Quad Cities. Along the way we were passing through Jan&#8217;s home town of Clinton, Iowa. 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