{"id":84,"date":"2005-09-27T23:55:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-09-28T06:58:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T06:58:15","slug":"too-busy-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/too-busy-driving","title":{"rendered":"Too busy driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-week-7\/p9253083\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/california-2005-week-7\/p9253083.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bill and Lisa on Paradise Beach\" title=\"Bill and Lisa on Paradise Beach\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;m having a busy time travelling, and hardly get a chance to write anything. I visited Bill and Lisa on Saturday and Sunday, and saw their cute son Luke for the first time. We had a great time together&nbsp;&#8211; I even learned more about American Football, and almost understood the game \ud83d\ude42 . It&#8217;s even quite interesting once you understand the rules a little!<br clear=\"all\"\/><br \/>\nFrom there, I headed up towards Zion National Park. The point of entry into Nevada from California is very obvious: only meters from the border, the first hotels and casinos beckon you to lose your money. (OK, they beckon you to win, but I prefer the truth.) I skipped Las Vegas, just driving through on the I-15. Some of the hotels there have amazing architecture; one looks like a Disney castle. I should have stayed in Las Vegas just to experience it, and because I was already quite tired by the time I got there. However, I had a motel booked 90 minutes north&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a busy time travelling, and hardly get a chance to write anything. I visited Bill and Lisa on Saturday and Sunday, and saw their cute son Luke for the first time. We had a great time together&nbsp;&#8211; I even learned more about American Football, and almost understood the game \ud83d\ude42 . It&#8217;s even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/too-busy-driving\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too busy driving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}