{"id":343,"date":"2016-02-01T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=343"},"modified":"2016-03-06T01:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T01:54:50","slug":"the-d-word-and-the-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/02\/01\/the-d-word-and-the-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The D word and the A word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should not be a surprise to those who know me that I&#8217;d rather be on a bicycle than in a car. \u00a0And if I must be in a car, it will be a super small fuel efficient vehicle. \u00a0Given our choice of a large 5th wheel this required a large truck which is neither a bike nor a small fuel efficient vehicle. \u00a0On a recent excursion to Austin we found ourselves in HEAVY rush hour traffic where we were sitting still and the smart cycling commuters were flying past us. \u00a0We had all 5 bikes in the back and I was so frustrated I almost suggested we ditch the truck and go the rest of the way on bikes. \u00a0Then one of the boys used the &#8220;D&#8221; word!! \u00a0They asked me &#8220;is this as bad a <em><strong>Denver<\/strong><\/em>?&#8221;. \u00a0My family knows how much I hate driving through Denver&#8230;traffic is always bad&#8230;.ALWAYS. \u00a0So for me, Denver is a bad word. \u00a0After our experience in Austin we may have a new bad word, the &#8220;A&#8221; word!<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to like about Denver&#8230;and we did have a great time in Austin (especially when on our bikes). \u00a0But traveling through\u00a0either city\u00a0with the other &#8220;A&#8221; word (automobile)\u00a0makes my skin crawl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should not be a surprise to those who know me that I&#8217;d rather be on a bicycle than in a car. \u00a0And if I must be in a car, it will be a super small fuel efficient vehicle. \u00a0Given our choice of a large 5th wheel this required a large truck which is neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}