{"id":156,"date":"2016-10-22T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T02:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:26:37","slug":"changing-directions-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Changing directions in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my midpoint. \u00a0It is a lovely political reality that a cross country\u00a0road trip can focus on deeply conservative states in one direction and a neatly aligned set of swing states in the other. \u00a0Today I spent my transition day\u00a0in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1455.jpg\" alt=\"img_1455\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is me, in full uniform with my GoPro at the ready, no makeup and comfy cow pants. \u00a0Life is good.<\/p>\n<p>Lots has changed in the last 4 years, but without question my favorite is the addition of the\u00a0new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. \u00a0The building (on my left) is spectacular, but\u00a0the sight of the families in line to enter, most with 3 or more generations together to share the experience was indescribable.<\/p>\n<p>Just outside of Washington DC, I happened upon a group of motorcyclists en route to Philadelphia. \u00a0These guys were having a blast and I just could not resist,<\/p>\n<p>[youtube video=I5hlXHiM_8w]<\/p>\n<p>Kurt &#8211; Please forgive me, you are so tall and I messed up the framing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my midpoint. \u00a0It is a lovely political reality that a cross country\u00a0road trip can focus on deeply conservative states in one direction and a neatly aligned set of swing states in the other. \u00a0Today I spent my transition day\u00a0in Washington DC. This is me, in full uniform with my GoPro at the ready, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Changing directions in DC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,23,38],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concerned","tag-hopeful","tag-upset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}