{"id":318,"date":"2008-10-16T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=318"},"modified":"2008-10-17T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:15:46","slug":"triumphant-amarillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Triumphant Amarillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is an important day for me. Near the end of my ride, I will pass the mid-point of this trip and be facing fewer miles than I have traveled.<\/p>\n<p>The psychological impact is notable.\u00a0 As with all challenges worth the effort, this one comes with\u00a0profoundly\u00a0moving moments that at times get lost in the chronic leg numbness, unnatural proximity to road kill, foreign insects, and acts of nature that could make a person of lesser faith question their God.<\/p>\n<p>It is a peculiarity of this kind of quest that it generates from your noblest self, \u00a0but exposes\u00a0your least attractive.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0then, another moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/0022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-319\" title=\"0022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/0022-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please meet\u00a0Myron Stiles\u00a0 A bartender at the HoffBrau Steakhouse, Myron is working toward his teaching certification and a Master&#8217;s program in Education Administration.\u00a0 Born and raised in Amarillo, he has an easy style and the good ear that comes with his profession.\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\/myron-stiles.mp3&song_title='Myron Stiles'&player_title='Myron Stiles'\" \/><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\/myron-stiles.mp3&song_title='Myron Stiles'&player_title='Myron Stiles'\" 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\/myron-stiles.mp3\" target=_blank>Myron Stiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so, these\u00a0moments ease\u00a0the ride.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is an important day for me. Near the end of my ride, I will pass the mid-point of this trip and be facing fewer miles than I have traveled. The psychological impact is notable.\u00a0 As with all challenges worth the effort, this one comes with\u00a0profoundly\u00a0moving moments that at times get lost in the chronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}