{"id":187,"date":"2015-06-29T02:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:31:42","slug":"big-john-metropolis-other-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/big-john-metropolis-other-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Big John: Metropolis&#8217; Other Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving through Metropolis on your way to the World&#8217;s Largest Statue of Superman, you&#8217;ll find another large statue of a &#8220;super man&#8221;: Big John (37.144369, -88.716370).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big-john.jpg\" alt=\"Big John\" width=\"360\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big-john.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big-john-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big John fits in the genre of roadside attractions known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/story\/37422\">Muffler Men<\/a>: giant statues of square-jawed he-men, that beckon you to buy mufflers, or in the case of John, to buy groceries. John looks like a cross between the happiest lumberjack ever and Al Capp&#8217;s L&#8217;li Abner.<\/p>\n<p>If you lived in Southern Illinois, wouldn&#8217;t you shop at Big Johns?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big-john-grocery.jpg\" alt=\"Big John\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big-john-grocery.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big-john-grocery-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more about Big John in <a href=\"http:\/\/thesouthern.com\/lifestyles\/leisure\/standing-tall-big-john-represents-our-culture-values-and-grit\/article_c6014cd7-eed2-5501-a885-4865f09701a7.html\">this lengthy article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last visited: May 24th, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving through Metropolis on your way to the World&#8217;s Largest Statue of Superman, you&#8217;ll find another large statue of a &#8220;super man&#8221;: Big John (37.144369, -88.716370). Big John fits in the genre of roadside attractions known as Muffler Men: giant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[54,101,40],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadside-attractions","tag-54","tag-giants","tag-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}