{"id":10480,"date":"2026-07-20T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10480"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:08:44","slug":"birthday-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/07\/20\/birthday-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got good sleep and got up early, and the pre-trip took about four hours. <\/p>\n<p>The project itself took 14 hours and 30 gallons of fuel to cover 650 miles&#8211;that&#8217;s about  as much as I want to do in any one day any more. And that&#8217;s with real sanctuary, of the leaden sort, on both ends&#8211;none of that ersatz motel junk. <\/p>\n<p>The only bad part was that it was all interstate, a thing I feel about pretty much the same as I do &#8220;motels&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>However, it was, mostly, the second-best interstate of all, I-40 through Arizona. (Number 1 intersects it at Flag, and features the Vair Terre; if you know you know.)<\/p>\n<p>The best part of all was saying my pieces in person, no texts, no phones, no Discord. <\/p>\n<p>It was good.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m home, and good too, and with any luck sleeping as you read this. <\/p>\n<p>Both of you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got good sleep and got up early, and the pre-trip took about four hours. The project itself took 14 hours and 30 gallons of fuel to cover 650 miles&#8211;that&#8217;s about as much as I want to do in any one day any more. And that&#8217;s with real sanctuary, of the leaden sort, on both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10482,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions\/10482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}