{"id":977,"date":"2014-11-03T23:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2014-11-03T23:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:30:19","slug":"mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m parked next to the Chapmans in a monstrous RV Resort that seems to be typical of many of it&#8217;s type here.  The resort thing isn&#8217;t really my style, but this one honors Passport America so I get 50% off the rates, making my stay quite reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Mesa isn&#8217;t my style either, nor the entire Greater Phoenix area.  Way too many look-alike houses, strip malls, and shopping centers.<\/p>\n<p>Before I arrived I spent a night in one of the worst run RV parks I&#8217;ve seen, in Safford.  Anxious to get out of there, I got an early start then a trailer tire blew out.  My roadside service provided an outfit out of Wilcox, about 90 minutes away.  After about three hours I had my spare on and was back on my way.  So I get to buy another tire while I&#8217;m here.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting around with Jim and talking trucks, I mentioned a strange vibration in my front wheels at 44 mph.  We looked and discovered my left front didn&#8217;t have any weights on it, but could see where they once were.  In fact, none of my wheels had weights.  Apparently the guy that mounted my tires this summer didn&#8217;t hammer them down well enough and I&#8217;ve been losing them along the way.  So I get to have truck tires balanced.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily there are plenty of places here to get the work done I need.  And I&#8217;m here until Saturday.  Weather is clear and 80&#8217;s, just right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m parked next to the Chapmans in a monstrous RV Resort that seems to be typical of many of it&#8217;s type here. The resort thing isn&#8217;t really my style, but this one honors Passport America so I get 50% off the rates, making my stay quite reasonable. Actually, Mesa isn&#8217;t my style either, nor the [&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-977","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\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}