{"id":8629,"date":"2020-08-03T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:03:15","slug":"road-trip-day-17-barstow-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2020\/08\/03\/road-trip-day-17-barstow-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Day 17: Barstow Beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whereas our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2019\/01\/20\/hey-porter\/\">previous trip<\/a> through the old Route 66 waypoint of Barstow had seen Henry &amp; me chilling\u2014literally\u2014in the high-desert January cold, this time was just the opposite: we delayed our evening foray to the train yard in the face of triple-digit heat that persisted past sundown, and we opted instead of drop by first thing Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hen of course regaled me with insane amounts of railroading history as we scrambled around old engines and watched innumerable freight trains chug past us. This kid is such a piece of work\u2014and we love him for it. &#x1f60c;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/jnuGhpzoqJo4jfvT9\">Here&#8217;s a gallery<\/a> showcasing our spin through history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/jnuGhpzoqJo4jfvT9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Spin.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8645\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas our previous trip through the old Route 66 waypoint of Barstow had seen Henry &amp; me chilling\u2014literally\u2014in the high-desert January cold, this time was just the opposite: we delayed our evening foray to the train yard in the face of triple-digit heat that persisted past sundown, and we opted instead of drop by first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-2020","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8867,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions\/8867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}