{"id":137,"date":"2007-08-28T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-08-28T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:24:00","slug":"the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/08\/the-car","title":{"rendered":"the car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been driving the new car much mostly because the radio isn&#8217;t as good as my other car and there&#8217;s no AC and the windows crank, but I did get <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/1206751641\/\">new plates for it<\/a>. This was a heavy driving weekend. I must have gone 500 miles just getting to two dinners and a doctor&#8217;s appointment. It involved some amazingly lovely parts of route 100, both under 89 and above, and some not-that-interesting parts of route 89 that I&#8217;m already sort of bored with.<\/p>\n<p>I got two add two photos to Wikipedia [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buels_Gore%2C_Vermont\">Buels Gore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hancock%2C_Vermont\">Hancock<\/a>] and decided to update my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/04\/251.html\">251 club<\/a> status. I have 38 towns left in VT that I&#8217;ve never been to.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had thunderstorms here. Enough so that I was driving down a pretty empty part of Route 100, just north of Stowe and I heard the Emergency Broadcast Signal and then the &#8220;this is NOT a test&#8221; message and a warning about &#8220;quarter-sized hail&#8221; I came around a bend and I could see the massive thunderhead full of lightning spraying all over the place, in the direction I was driving. I got to Stepahnie&#8217;s house just as the winds were picking up and got to sit around watching the lights blink on and off for a while but the hail never materialized. I got home several hours later and all the appliances were telling me that my power had been off too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/08\/the-car\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to the car\"><p>I haven&#8217;t been driving the new car much mostly because the radio isn&#8217;t as good as my other car and there&#8217;s no AC and the windows crank, but I did get new plates for it. This was a heavy driving weekend. I must have gone 500 miles just getting to two dinners and a doctor&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[94,12,9,4],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","tag-251club","tag-cars","tag-driving","tag-me","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}