{"id":632,"date":"2015-03-23T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=632"},"modified":"2015-03-23T19:32:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T02:32:26","slug":"the-open-road-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/the-open-road-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"The open road beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, long time. \u00a0The one-off commutes between Portland and Seattle will pale in comparison. \u00a0The wandering tours around the Pacific Northwest will become short jaunts. \u00a0I&#8217;ve decided to take the motorcycle on a round trip tour back home to Chicago from Portland.<\/p>\n<p>This most certainly won&#8217;t be easy. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be pushing mileage back-to-back that I haven&#8217;t done before. \u00a0The weather back east hasn&#8217;t been the most conducive to this endeavor yet. \u00a0Snow and ice, along with running out of time, will be the only thing which make me turn back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve planned out my route, along I-80, and have begun identifying things along the way which I can stop and stretch my legs at. \u00a0The thing that concerns me most, given the weather and the timing of the trip, are the passes in the Rockies. \u00a0I won&#8217;t know until I get there just what state they&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, long time. \u00a0The one-off commutes between Portland and Seattle will pale in comparison. \u00a0The wandering tours around the Pacific Northwest will become short jaunts. \u00a0I&#8217;ve decided to take the motorcycle on a round trip tour back home to Chicago from Portland. This most certainly won&#8217;t be easy. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be pushing mileage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-ride-report","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}