{"id":3046,"date":"2013-07-21T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2015-11-28T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:02:02","slug":"trip-pic-peek-9-trip-66-2008-route-66-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/trip-pic-peek-9-trip-66-2008-route-66-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Peek #9
Trip #66
2008 Route 66 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tow<\/a>This picture is from the my 2008 Route 66 Festival<\/a>\u00a0road trip so it is quite fitting that it was my sixty-sixth documented trip. Because the festival was in Litchfield, Illinois, which is Sixty-Six’s nearest approach to my home, I was able to work the entire festival into a four day trip. There were appearances by both Beatles and Elvis impersonators along with the real celebrity\u00a0in the picture. That is the actual truck that John Lasseter first saw on Route 66 and used as the model for Tow Mater in the movie Cars<\/em>. The original in now named Tow Tater and is normally on display at 4 Women on the Route in Galena, Kansas. Tow Tater was trailered to Litchfield for the festival where he was a major hit with kids.<\/p>\n

Trip Pic Peek #8 — Trip #85 — 2010 OLHL Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trip Pic Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo plus links to the full sized photo and the trip journal it is from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This picture is from the my 2008 Route 66 Festival\u00a0road trip so it is quite fitting that it was my sixty-sixth documented trip. Because the festival was in Litchfield, Illinois, which is Sixty-Six’s nearest approach to my home, I was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[10,36,41],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pic-peek","tag-festival","tag-tripreport","tag-us66"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-N8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}