{"id":1194,"date":"2011-12-23T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:40:56","slug":"the-scariest-drive-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"The Scariest Drive. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made it safely to Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, a little rewinding first. I had to have AAA come and jump-start the car, and get a new battery for it first. Yay.<\/p>\n<p>Then I packed and left for Asheville later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Let me just say that that was the scariest drive ever. I was doing okay until I got hit with a sudden intense urge to sleep, like a sleep hammer hit me in the face. Repeatedly. I had to blast the radio, guzzle caffeine, open the windows, and turn on the air conditioner, just to stay awake. (And it was 40F\/5C outside!)<\/p>\n<p>I stopped every 30 minutes and did exercises, too.<\/p>\n<p>I made it Asheville, though. Now I will have a Merry Christmas and sleep for a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>That means fewer posts for a while, but this blog is only really active when I&#8217;m traveling, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This adventure is over. Stay tuned for the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car&#8217;s battery was dead, and so was mine. I made it to Asheville safely, but after 18 hours of flying, that&#8217;s not a drive I want to repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[498,107,648,828,649,895],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-aaa","tag-asheville","tag-driving","tag-japan2011","tag-sleep","tag-travel","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}