{"id":9177,"date":"2016-08-22T07:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:01:04","slug":"mercedes-love-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9177","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;still in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9178\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm.jpg\" alt=\"mercedes_love-8-16-sm\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Took a wee day trip into Pennsylvania to wander around a bit with my cameras, finish off the roll of color film I started on the road trip last June, and hopefully clear my head so I can get back to work on A Coming Out Story. On the way home I saw a signpost advertising a scenic overlook beside the Susquehanna river and I turned off and started climbing. You really notice how nicely a diesel engine&#8217;s torque helps navigating \u00a0a little twisty state park road when the switchback curves don&#8217;t even bother trying to smooth out \u00a0the elevation gain. The car simply did not care how steep it got. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The view at the top was lovely. In retrospect I should have brought out the color film camera, and I did consider it, but then I thought of the millions of other photos everyone had probably taken at that same spot and I figured I couldn&#8217;t add anything to it so I didn&#8217;t. But I did snap off a few with the iPhone for memory&#8217;s sake that I might post later. Then as I turned \u00a0back to the car I saw the sky doodling all over <em>Spirit<\/em> and I had to snap a shot of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;still in it. \u00a0 Took a wee day trip into Pennsylvania to wander around a bit with my cameras, finish off the roll of color film I started on the road trip last June, and hopefully clear my head so I can get back to work on A Coming Out Story. On the way home [&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":[84,55],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mercedes-love","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177","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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}