{"id":392,"date":"2012-10-16T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/?p=392"},"modified":"2012-10-17T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:42:09","slug":"richmond-va-surprise-and-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Richmond, VA:  Surprise and delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Frost wrote, &#8220;For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn&#8217;t know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Substitute travels for his poetry and he captured perfectly what I am discovering every day. It is those subtle surprises that define and add texture to every day of this trip. Today the colors started to change. \u00a0For those of us west of the Sierra Nevada&#8217;s and south of the Oregon\/California border, the depth of even the early colors here in the southeast can take our breath away.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is Bobby Barnes. \u00a0Making his way back to Birmingham Alabama, Bobby works at the Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. \u00a0Work is good. \u00a0Mercedes has added 300 new employees in the last 6 months and is looking to add 400 more. \u00a0As much as I thought I understood about a man like Bobby, at every turn, he was a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>[rtmp3 url=&#8221;https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/108166614\/Audio2012\/Bobby%20Barnes.mp3&#8243; title=&#8221;Bobby Barnes&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Why keep putting ourselves in debt&#8217;<br \/>\nBobby Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/?p=392\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,9,46,48],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amusing","tag-concerned","tag-entertained","tag-tense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}