{"id":1061,"date":"2008-09-12T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2008-09-12T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T04:41:00","slug":"on-the-road-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"On the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogging will be sketchy for the next week, as I am on the road, my destination being first, a small town and an old friend in eastern North Dakota — and then possibly the Turtle Mountain <\/a>area of that state.<\/p>\n

Tonight I fetched up in Valentine, Nebraska<\/a> (more than halfway there!), which in some respects is a typical Plains town that smells like cows and diesel fuel, but which is surrounded by some fascinating country, including the Sand Hills<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogging will be sketchy for the next week, as I am on the road, my destination being first, a small town and an old friend in eastern North Dakota — and then possibly the Turtle Mountain area of that state. Tonight I fetched up in Valentine, Nebraska (more than halfway there!), which in some respects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-h7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":475,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=475","url_meta":{"origin":1061,"position":0},"title":"Road tripSuitably stocked with guns\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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