{"id":450,"date":"2008-10-25T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=450"},"modified":"2008-10-25T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T05:03:44","slug":"colors-of-natchez-trace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Colors of Natchez Trace"},"content":{"rendered":"

This day, like no other on this trip, made me love my scooter.<\/p>\n

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I will confess that there have been several moments when I questioned the sanity of my decision to ride\u00a0the scooter.\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 Like riding though a postcard, the road that leads into Nashville through the Natchez Trace State Park is\u00a0breathtaking.\u00a0 In one day, the colors exploded and I spent the entire ride\u00a0with my jaw agape.\u00a0 It was a good day.<\/p>\n

For the first time, interviewing was a bit tough.\u00a0 Part of the blame is mine, and part belongs to the University of Tennessee.\u00a0 See, during the day, I was having so much fun that I was more interested in riding than lingering to talk.\u00a0 However, I fully expected to make up for it in the evening.\u00a0 That is, until I started to see several cars and trucks sporting flags with big orange T’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I slowly put it together that it was football day.\u00a0 Tennesse was playing Alabama.\u00a0 What I did not\u00a0know was that it was an evening game.\u00a0 Moreover, and this should come as no surprise, Tennessee takes their football seriously.\u00a0 As far as I can tell, talking and eye contact are off limits during game time.<\/p>\n

So I was particularly thankful to find Mayuri (she requested first name only).\u00a0 Mayuri moved to Lebanon, Tennessee 7 years ago at the age of 14 with her family from India.\u00a0 This will be her first Presidential election and it was refreshing to hear her unique point of view.<\/p>\n

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Mayuri<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and for the record, Alabama won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This day, like no other on this trip, made me love my scooter. I will confess that there have been several moments when I questioned the sanity of my decision to ride\u00a0the scooter.\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 Like riding though a postcard, the road that leads into Nashville through the Natchez Trace State Park is\u00a0breathtaking.\u00a0 In one […]<\/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-450","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\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}