{"id":196,"date":"2003-06-09T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/06\/09\/glendale-california\/"},"modified":"2003-06-09T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T04:30:00","slug":"glendale-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/06\/09\/glendale-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendale, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, a question:  what is it in your brain that will allow you to drive along, completely bored, for hours, but as soon as you leave the flat, straight stretch of highway for a curvy, busy stretch through the mountains you immediately think &#8220;I need to look under the seat to see if there are any Junior Mints there RIGHT NOW?&#8221;  This also happens when construction causes traffic to become bumper-to-bumper and suddenly it becomes imperative that the CD be changed &#8212; why is that?  Maybe my brain is missing an important filter that should re-schedule these sorts of events, or maybe I&#8217;m just a statistic for Darwin waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Rambling aside, not a lot going on lately.  I scanned in a ton of <a href=\"\/photos.html\">photos<\/a> over the weekend, although unfortunately I only made it about two-thirds of the way through the <a href=\"\/photos\/galapagos\/highlights\/\">Galapagos pictures<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve also got <a href=\"\/aaron\/galapagos\">my brother&#8217;s Galapagos photos<\/a> online &#8212; I think on this trip he got better pictures than I did.  I should have the rest of my photos online after the next time I get home, probably in a couple of weeks.  Captions and such will get added as I have time over the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a question: what is it in your brain that will allow you to drive along, completely bored, for hours, but as soon as you leave the flat, straight stretch of highway for a curvy, busy stretch through the mountains you immediately think &#8220;I need to look under the seat to see if there are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/06\/09\/glendale-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glendale, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}