{"id":10112,"date":"2013-11-17T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2013-11-17T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:09:40","slug":"americas-massive-concrete-arrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/americas-massive-concrete-arrows\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Massive Concrete Arrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10114\" alt=\"giantarrow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/giantarrow.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/giantarrow.jpg 880w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/giantarrow-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you&#8217;re lost, and use your phone to get you home. And sometimes you use a 70 foot concrete arrow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After World War I, there was a surplus of planes and a desire for fast postal delivery&#8230;behold air mail.<\/li>\n<li>To help guide pilots across miles of unremarkable terrain, the federal government had huge arrows made and installed, 50 or 70 foot long.<\/li>\n<li>So the mail could be moved at night, manned watchtowers were constructed next to the arrows with rotating lights, visible from altitudes of 10 miles.<\/li>\n<li>It was in the 1940&#8217;s that saw the end of our favourite pointers. A combination of the increased sophistication of radio and the need for scrap metal for the war effort meant that the beacon towers were disassembled.<\/li>\n<li>It isn&#8217;t known how many of the arrows or watchtowers still survive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more pictures of these long-forgotten installations, have a look over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/11\/15\/the-forgotten-giant-arrows-that-guide-you-across-america\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/11\/15\/the-forgotten-giant-arrows-that-guide-you-across-america\/\">Messy Nessy Chic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you&#8217;re lost, and use your phone to get you home. And sometimes you use a 70 foot concrete arrow. After World War I, there was a surplus of planes and a desire for fast postal delivery&#8230;behold air mail. To help guide pilots across miles of unremarkable terrain, the federal government had huge arrows made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/giantarrow.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10123,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions\/10123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}