{"id":822,"date":"2007-04-07T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/04\/07\/calling-all-friends\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:20:00","slug":"calling-all-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/04\/07\/calling-all-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I&#8217;ve learned while traveling home to San Francisco today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oral hygiene is apparently of utmost importance to the terrorists, and anyone traveling with a full-sized tube of toothpaste is therefore suspect.  When the security guy pulls a tube of Crest out of your bag, eyes you suspiciously, and says &#8220;What are you doing with <i>this<\/i>&#8221; the guilt and shame is tremendous.  One can only wonder why I was still allowed to travel.<\/li>\n<li>According to NPR, the most requested musician on the radio on Kenya isn&#8217;t Kanye West, P-Diddy, or even Beyonce.  Who is it?  Kenny Rogers.  They love him.  Dolly Parton tops the list of female artists.  In Iraq the word is that Lionel Richie could play to packed stadiums if he wanted to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news, Aaron took the victory in last night&#8217;s mini-golfing by double-digits (the rematch awaits), I&#8217;m back to requiring extreme-levels of caffeination to function, and there&#8217;s a high probability that I&#8217;ll be heading to Iceland with my dad in tow in the summer of 2008.  Also, the Browns&#8217; 2007 draft possibilities include numerous guys who are basically beasts capable of smashing people, and that&#8217;s always nice.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/az-nm-99\/pages\/a57-roll\/14-white-sands-yucca.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/a57-roll\/14-white-sands-yucca.jpg\" alt=\"White Sands Yucca\" width=\"386\" height=\"600\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Yucca in White Sands, New Mexico.  Taken in 1999, and still one of my all-time favorite photos.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I&#8217;ve learned while traveling home to San Francisco today: Oral hygiene is apparently of utmost importance to the terrorists, and anyone traveling with a full-sized tube of toothpaste is therefore suspect. When the security guy pulls a tube of Crest out of your bag, eyes you suspiciously, and says &#8220;What are you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/04\/07\/calling-all-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling All Friends&#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-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}