{"id":886,"date":"2009-07-14T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/14\/back-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T09:26:00","slug":"back-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/14\/back-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week off for summer break, I&#8217;m in a diner this morning on the way to an interview.  Here&#8217;s a snippet from a conversation overheard at 4:40 am:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Waitress:  You all want to come to my wedding?<\/p>\n<p>Customer:  I don&#8217;t like to dress up.<\/p>\n<p>Waitress:  Oh, we&#8217;re not dressing up.  This is a white trash wedding.  My mom was making tuxedos for my roosters and the dogs ate them.  (Unclear whether the dogs ate the costumes or the birds.)  I took that as an omen.  Not that I shouldn&#8217;t get married.  That we shouldn&#8217;t dress up&#8230;and we shouldn&#8217;t include the chickens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever else I do today won&#8217;t top that bit of dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week off for summer break, I&#8217;m in a diner this morning on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}