{"id":12388,"date":"2023-07-22T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2023-07-22T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:52:01","slug":"been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12388","title":{"rendered":"Been A While&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;since my last post here, I know.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been on a wee road trip to the ancient Garrett homelands in Oceano, California. It took me through the amber waves of grain, up to nearly the tree line in altitude on I-70 in the purple mountain majesties, through stunningly beautiful canyons and across the Utah\/Nevada\/California desert in the ongoing blistering heat wave. Car trouble was experienced and diagnosed at a Mercedes dealer in Utah, I was able to proceed to my brother&#8217;s house in Oceano, where I shall hopefully and shortly finally get the emission system recall done and give my car some detailing love at a local place that always does excellent work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell more about it later. But I just want to add that I&#8217;m not kidding about how hot it was going from Grand Junction almost to the California coast. You stepped out of your motel room or your air conditioned car and into a furnace. Then I get to Oceano and start unpacking the car and it&#8217;s in the high 60s and there&#8217;s lovely cool breeze and I might not go back home until there is snow on the ground in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this it&#8217;s sunny blue skies and 56 degrees here in Oceano.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;since my last post here, I know.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been on a wee road trip to the ancient Garrett homelands in Oceano, California. It took me through the amber waves of grain, up to nearly the tree line in altitude on I-70 in the purple mountain majesties, through stunningly beautiful canyons and across the Utah\/Nevada\/California desert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[289,31],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-california-life","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}