{"id":7234,"date":"2018-05-18T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2024-01-15T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:13:01","slug":"texas-in-my-rear-view-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2018\/05\/18\/texas-in-my-rear-view-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas in my Rear [view mirror]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seven months and another transmission rebuild later, I\u2019m reunited with my car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to my old home group in Austin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only people really left were the ones I had been closest to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had welcomed a stranger and been kind to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Do you ever feel like pulling out an emory board at a meeting and snarking &#8220;soooo, where&#8217;d all the winners go?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I forgot about that sweet spot at about 79MPH when the whole car has this weird industrial sounding hum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lock into that sound and resonate with it. It\u2019s pleasant for some reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sitting in the nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click, set, go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I drove through all the hues of Texas and watched the lightning lick across a wide open desert sky for hundreds of miles late last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was neat. If I could be anywhere right now this is exactly where I\u2019d like to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months and another transmission rebuild later, I\u2019m reunited with my car. I went to my old home group in Austin. The only people really left were the ones I had been closest to. They had welcomed a stranger and been kind to me. Do you ever feel like pulling out an emory board at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14832,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/14832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}