{"id":6622,"date":"2024-08-17T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:00:37","slug":"joyrider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2024\/08\/17\/joyrider\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyrider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine hours and bless the magnesium.<\/p>\n<p>Early in that nine, I was walking among the houses in the hills and it was raining harder. I sought shelter in the rusted hulk of a pickup truck. There was no instrument panel and the seats were only bare springs, but I was grateful to be not getting even more wet.<\/p>\n<p>After a long moment I noticed that its engine was purring so quietly that the rain noise was almost drowning the sound.<\/p>\n<p>I gingerly pushed down the clutch, put it in reverse, and then let up on it slow. To my shock and delight, the truck moved.<\/p>\n<p>So I drove it the last forty miles into Flagstaff.<\/p>\n<p>Was that a crime?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/limasolCat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"898\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/limasolCat.png 898w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/limasolCat-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/limasolCat-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/limasolCat-600x342.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine hours and bless the magnesium. Early in that nine, I was walking among the houses in the hills and it was raining harder. I sought shelter in the rusted hulk of a pickup truck. There was no instrument panel and the seats were only bare springs, but I was grateful to be not getting [&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-6622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622","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=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}