{"id":346,"date":"2006-11-17T23:57:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=346"},"modified":"2006-12-24T03:30:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T01:30:30","slug":"flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/flying\/","title":{"rendered":"highway 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"25160017.JPG\" id=\"image360\" src=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/25160017.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>an early morning bus ride from santa cruz to san jose<br \/>\nthe sun breaks through as we drive on the winding road<br \/>\nthrough the santa cruz mountains<br \/>\nhighway 17 &#8211; this road is beginning to feel familiar<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve come to known its pace and curves<br \/>\nall of a sudden i think of the last time i will take this road,<br \/>\nto go home. where that exactely is, has become less clear.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"25160018.JPG\" id=\"image361\" src=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/25160018.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s something nice about these cheapy US domestic flights<br \/>\n&#8211; despite the fact that every time i took one they are entirely full<br \/>\nand one gets candy bars as &#8220;food&#8221;, and it has little to do with<br \/>\nthe SouthWest staff cracking not-so-funny jokes<br \/>\n(&#8220;there are 50 ways to leave your lover but only 6 to leave this aircraft&#8230;&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>the flight routes are lower, or the sky is more open,<br \/>\nso it&#8217;s the forth or fifth time that i get to see<br \/>\nthe massive Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains<br \/>\n(peaks, snow, canyons, rivers, roads, fields, small settlements&#8230;),<br \/>\nmesmerizing. i stare and stare and imagine all kinds of stories<br \/>\nof lives down there, now and in past times.<br \/>\nit&#8217;s enchanting to see the country like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an early morning bus ride from santa cruz to san jose the sun breaks through as we drive on the winding road through the santa cruz mountains highway 17 &#8211; this road is beginning to feel familiar i&#8217;ve come to known its pace and curves all of a sudden i think of the last time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/flying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;highway 17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}