{"id":1242,"date":"2013-09-14T02:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2013-09-14T02:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:48:14","slug":"roads-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Roads of Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Route 66 happens to be, arguably, the most famous highway in the nation \u2014 probably the world. In regard to protecting and preserving Route 66, it becomes an obligation for me and it should be for other people to preserve, protect and enhance all the roads &#8211; all the roads of history. I\u2019m particularly fond of those roads, those vintage pathways. And you\u2019ll hear me say this in speeches, it\u2019s one of my most favorite quotes. It comes from William Blake of all people \u2013 the old English philosopher, poet and artist. It goes something like this: \u201cImprovement makes straight roads, but crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.Route 66 is such a road.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 Michael Wallis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Route 66 happens to be, arguably, the most famous highway in the nation \u2014 probably the world. In regard to protecting and preserving Route 66, it becomes an obligation for me and it should be for other people to preserve, protect and enhance all the roads &#8211; all the roads of history. I\u2019m particularly fond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}