{"id":486,"date":"2013-11-04T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:29:05","slug":"texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh&#8230;West Texas.  Days of driving through nothing of interest.  Shoddy towns with gas stations and maybe a weed-filled RV lot.  I&#8217;m in an OK place tonight in Van Horn, which is a crappy town.<\/p>\n<p>I inspected my tires and axles every 50 miles or so, and no trouble found.<\/p>\n<p>I saw an oddity of some interest.  As I approached Las Cruces I saw off in the distance a shape kinda like a blimp, only it was really big.  As I approached the airport I could see it was a blimp, of remarkable size.  Later, after I was parked in Van Horn it went over town.  &#8220;Cloud Lab&#8221; it said on the side.  It is the largest blimp in the world, and is being used to measure microbes in the atmosphere, as well as a platform for a BBC television production.  Different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh&#8230;West Texas. Days of driving through nothing of interest. Shoddy towns with gas stations and maybe a weed-filled RV lot. I&#8217;m in an OK place tonight in Van Horn, which is a crappy town. I inspected my tires and axles every 50 miles or so, and no trouble found. I saw an oddity of some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}