{"id":264,"date":"2008-10-13T22:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T05:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-10-14T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T21:04:28","slug":"signs-of-southern-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Signs of southern (dis)comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my aim on October 5th when I set out on this journey was to get out of my comfort zone, I may have overachieved.<\/p>\n<p>What follows are the indicators.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 It is so cold that I\u00a0am willing to look like this,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265\" title=\"0021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/0021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am wearing long underwear (top and bottom), jeans, 2 additional shirts, a fully padded motorcycle jacket, rain pants, rain jacket and no makeup.\u00a0 Note &#8211; this photo was taken by a lovely man who had never used a digital camera and who, despite several attempts to demonstrate, kept looking through a non-existent view finder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 I\u00a0am so happy to be warm that I am unfazed by the breeze that inflates my bright yellow jacket, effectively making me look like an oversized\u00a0Easter Peep speeding across New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 The following interview exists.<\/p>\n<p>In search of a place to warm up, I pulled\u00a0off in Grants, New Mexico.\u00a0 Not wanting to stop at a fast food place, I found the Econo Lodge and Restaurant.\u00a0 I was the only customer\u00a0and I struck up a conversation with the restaurant manager.\u00a0 A young man named Greg Chapman, he was engaging and informed.\u00a0 But it was hard not to notice an intense older man sitting in the corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-269\" title=\"Alfredo Mirabal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please meet\u00a0Alfredo Mirabal.\u00a0 The owner of the Grants Econo Lodge and Restaurant, Alfredo is a rancher by trade, his life story and worldview among the most unique that I have found.\u00a0 If my challenge when I started this journey was to stay engaged (without evangelizing) in the face of\u00a0opposing views, Alfredo is my Kilimanjaro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0\" width=\"400\" height=\"15\" id=\"xspf_player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/alfredo-mirabal.mp3&song_title='Alfredo Mirabal'&player_title='Alfredo Mirabal'\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#e6e6e6\" \/><embed src=\"\/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/alfredo-mirabal.mp3&song_title='Alfredo Mirabal'&player_title='Alfredo Mirabal'\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#e6e6e6\" width=\"400\" height=\"15\" name=\"xspf_player\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/alfredo-mirabal.mp3\" target=_blank>Alfredo Mirabal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/alfredo-mirabal.mp3\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my aim on October 5th when I set out on this journey was to get out of my comfort zone, I may have overachieved. 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