
{"id":123,"date":"2006-09-08T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2006-09-08T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T16:26:57","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/08\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On the road again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSunday will mark the start of a 2 week roadtrip. There is no real agenda, although there are a few places and people I want to see. The point though is to do some meandering rather than keep some tight schedule. It&#8217;s great to have the opportunity to do something like this and I&#8217;m grateful that my family is tolerant enough to allow such an adventure.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/attract\/MNDARtwine.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/pix\/usamap.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe key to this activity is to gain some perspective through movement and long periods of relative isolation. Driving long distances does this for me &#8211; enough brainpower is directed at the road to keep some degree of focus, there is some destination nebulously in the future, and I&#8217;m physically constrained and as isolated from the world, while still able to observe it. This provides a the right conditions for deep concentrated thought to occur and that&#8217;s critical right now as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=82\">I consider what to engage in next<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSunday, I&#8217;ll start north. Periodic blog updates will be posted as internet access is available.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeatspace coordinates: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=N37.32%20W122.30&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wl\">N37.32.4 W122.30.9<\/a><br \/>\nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/oob;_ylt=ApiRDtt7p8MTZpktFXDiDqUcvrYF\">1-0<\/a> Next up: Texas 9\/9 5pm PST, OSU 2.5 point underdog<br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=411861&#038;s=143441&#038;i=411853\">Still I long for your kiss<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucindawilliams.com\/\">Lucinda Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/travel\" rel=\"tag\"> Travel<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/roadtrip\"> Roadtrip<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/transition\"> Transition<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\"> Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday will mark the start of a 2 week roadtrip. There is no real agenda, although there are a few places and people I want to see. The point though is to do some meandering rather than keep some tight schedule. It&#8217;s great to have the opportunity to do something like this and I&#8217;m grateful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}