{"id":5051,"date":"2011-03-24T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2011-03-24T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:19:42","slug":"41-reason-to-take-a-road-trip-giant-roadside-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/41-reason-to-take-a-road-trip-giant-roadside-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"#41 Reason to take a Road Trip: Giant Roadside Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes life seems to be larger than life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;especially when we&#8217;re talking about humor related to contrasts in size.<strong> Behold the giant characters of the roadsides!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems Route 66 is dotted with a few more giant roadside characters per mile than other travel routes. Here are just 3:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5052\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bigguys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5052 \" title=\"bigguys\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bigguys-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bigguys-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bigguys-350x210.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bigguys.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(the one on the right isn&#39;t doing sign language for &quot;day&quot;. He&#39;s a lumberjack who used to hold an axe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>But, you know what?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> just route 66 with these attractions. America&#8217;s byways have lots of them&#8230;and really people in places all over the world create outlandish sights to attract attention or visitors. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does anything else really say, &#8220;Buy stuff here!&#8221; as well as an oversized lumberjack with an axe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my area, this enormous Amish couple sits outside the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamericainc.com\/\">Roadside America<\/a>. Actually, they sort of frighten me.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roadside-america.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5053\" title=\"roadside-america\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roadside-america-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roadside-america-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roadside-america-350x466.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roadside-america.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the craziest roadside creation you&#8217;ve seen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now for some spiritual reflection:<br \/>\nIf someone was building a giant something to represent your personality, what would it look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes life seems to be larger than life&#8230; &#8230;especially when we&#8217;re talking about humor related to contrasts in size. Behold the giant characters of the roadsides! It seems Route 66 is dotted with a few more giant roadside characters per mile than other travel routes. Here are just 3: But, you know what? It&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/41-reason-to-take-a-road-trip-giant-roadside-characters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#41 Reason to take a Road Trip: Giant Roadside Characters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[4560,201,4563,4561,4558,1388,2454,4565,4564,4559,4547,4562],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-1950s","tag-amish","tag-amish-country","tag-attractions","tag-characters","tag-funny","tag-pa","tag-pa-dutch","tag-pa-german","tag-roadside-america","tag-route-66","tag-tourist-spots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}