{"id":1725,"date":"2014-06-21T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2014-06-21T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:32:24","slug":"travel-broadens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Travel broadens one so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey \u2014 I traveled all day yesterday to get here. A long way to be so cold. They say it is 82 degrees, but I don&#8217;t believe them.<\/p>\n<p>This part of New Jersey is lovely. I detected evidence of two skunks on the way here. I did not have to ask whether they were Republicans or Democrats. They are evenly divided among executive and legislative branches in this state.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a great while \u2014 exactly how long I do not remember \u2014 but air travel has changed in but one respect. A conversation with a fellow traveler is extremely rare. It is odd how social media breeds such asocial (not anti-social) behavior. The phones and pads and tablets \u2014 all on airplane mode \u2014 are in constant use. I was in a rare row yesterday in which three passengers each had actual paperbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey \u2014 I traveled all day yesterday to get here. A long way to be so cold. They say it is 82 degrees, but I don&#8217;t believe them. This part of New Jersey is lovely. I detected evidence of two skunks on the way here. I did not have to ask whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}