{"id":90,"date":"2016-10-11T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=90"},"modified":"2016-10-11T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T05:30:50","slug":"williams-angel-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Williams Angel, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a defining moment in my first\u00a0excursion across country, it came in Williams, Arizona. \u00a0It happened when mechanics\u00a0and weather conspired\u00a0and led me and my broken scooter to Grand Canyon Motorsports and Shayne Newbolt. \u00a0What followed was the single finest act of kindness and engineering (for the whole story, check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/archives\/williams-angels\">here<\/a>)\u00a0and a friendship that endured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/amarillo-tx-of-course-discourse\/\">second visit<\/a>\u00a0and now a third \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Shayne, Dan and Wayne fixed my bike and got me safely out ahead of a storm. \u00a0But something else happened as well. \u00a0Our conversations changed. \u00a0They are just that, conversations. \u00a0We do not simply take turns at monologues of our positions. \u00a0Listen carefully&#8230; \u00a0we do not have to agree, but what a delight to know that we are both heard.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube video=AUdvWfIOFgM]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a defining moment in my first\u00a0excursion across country, it came in Williams, Arizona. \u00a0It happened when mechanics\u00a0and weather conspired\u00a0and led me and my broken scooter to Grand Canyon Motorsports and Shayne Newbolt. \u00a0What followed was the single finest act of kindness and engineering (for the whole story, check it out here)\u00a0and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=90\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Williams Angel, Part 3&#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":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}