{"id":2870,"date":"2013-10-20T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:20:53","slug":"driving-180xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Driving +180XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color:red\">\n2% fuel economy bonus!<br \/>\nCan now refuel without spilling gasoline on self!<br \/>\n-20% chance of falling asleep at the wheel!<\/p>\n<p>600 XP to next level<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what I heard about Fort Wayne: is that there&#8217;s nothing in Fort Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>I made the trip at 8 this morning, luckily traffic was light since I largely ignored my suicidal GPS device that always wants me to take I-94 through Chicago to get to Indiana. Instead took I-290 to I-294 to I-80 to route 30 to cross the Hoosier state. I&#8217;m here for 4 weeks for an organ transplantation rotation that starts tomorrow at Lutheran Hospital. <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GIMP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GIMP-352x415.jpg\" alt=\"No zippers, just straps\" width=\"352\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GIMP-352x415.jpg 352w, https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GIMP.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>This part of the state is weird. Especially when I crossed the line where all my radio station presets started changing and mashing up genres. Alternative becomes country, country becomes classical, and Spanish channels become christian rock. I actually went two hours without hearing Lady Gaga. It was awful. <\/p>\n<p>Fort Wayne is (I really shouldn&#8217;t be surprised) heavily car-dependent. And there are so many subdivisions in this area. Fort Wayne on Google Maps looks like a capillary bed. Yeesh. Wouldn&#8217;t want to live here. Oh, well. As long as I have my trusty travel ironing board and PC Gimp suit, I should be pretty ready for this rotation.<\/p>\n<p>But I should mention that when I got here, I realized I broke Douglas Adams&#8217; one rule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2% fuel economy bonus! Can now refuel without spilling gasoline on self! -20% chance of falling asleep at the wheel! 600 XP to next level So what I heard about Fort Wayne: is that there&#8217;s nothing in Fort Wayne. I made the trip at 8 this morning, luckily traffic was light since I largely ignored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}