{"id":228,"date":"2010-05-07T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/2010\/05\/deep-in-the-heart-of-texas\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T19:54:11","slug":"deep-in-the-heart-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/2010\/05\/deep-in-the-heart-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep in the Heart of Texas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the heart of Texas&#8230;. It&#8217;s a song for those who don&#8217;t know. Cute lyrics. Here is some unimportant information in case you have nothing else to do:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Once in a while you see fields of tall grass. It has a very nice dark green color. It looks so cool with the strong wind blowing over it. The movement of the grass looks like it&#8217;s water. Love it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Road trip rules (RTR):<br \/>\n1) Never exceed the speed limit. Saw once someone with CA plates get pulled over in TX probably going only 2 miles above the limit. It&#8217;s not worth the extra maybe 5 minutes earlier you might arrive.<\/p>\n<p>2) Arrive before it gets dark at your destination. It&#8217;s no fun to drive around in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>3) Have fun! That&#8217;s it for the rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Saw huge rolls of fiber optic cable on the side of the freeway about every 2 miles for probably around 50 miles. Most likely they are using those to upgrade the backhaul data network for the cell towers. What a project to bury all this cable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Saw a billboard which said: Exit here to buy Amish furniture. Eric says: I wonder if you have to pay with chickens. I said: What do they do with all those chickens? Don&#8217;t they have enough by now? Maybe they have chicken banks. Your chicken account even makes interest. They&#8217;ll multiple with more chickens. LOL. (Yeah I know you need a rooster too, but the conversation was very funny) The things you see and can twist into something funny on a roadtrip. Priceless!<\/p>\n<p>Ok that&#8217;s it. Hope everyone has been entertained. Soon to be in New Mexico. I will get an hour back! Yipppeee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the heart of Texas&#8230;. It&#8217;s a song for those who don&#8217;t know. Cute lyrics. Here is some unimportant information in case you have nothing else to do: &#8211; Once in a while you see fields of tall grass. It has a very nice dark green color. It looks so cool with the strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oklahoma","category-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeltratz.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}