{"id":11,"date":"2010-08-28T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2011-07-16T04:43:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:43:03","slug":"day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Loaded-ready.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12\" title=\"Loaded &amp; ready\" src=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Loaded-ready-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Loaded-ready-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Loaded-ready.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today I got the bike loaded up on the trailer and hitched up to my Jetta TDI Sportwagen.\u00a0 Finally hit the road at about 11:00 AM and headed toward Atlanta.\u00a0 The Jetta turns out to be an excellent little tow vehicle.\u00a0 The torquey little diesel had absolutey no problem getting the loaded trailer up to speed and was able to easily maintain 75 mph on the interstate.\u00a0 All while returning 30 miles per gallon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rik-Denise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13\" title=\"Rik &amp; Denise\" src=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rik-Denise-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rik-Denise-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rik-Denise.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My hosts for the evening were my friend Rik, his wife, Denise, and Deacon the wonder dog.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at about 7:00 PM and after a glass of wine and a cigar, we went to dinner at a Topas restaurant where we had some great food, conversation, listened to live music and drank more wine.\u00a0 Back at the homestead, Rik &amp; I challenged each other to a Wii bowling match and, apparently, a wine drinking competition.\u00a0 The next morning I was sure that a truck had run me over, but there were no witnesses.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Rik and Denise were wonderful hosts, as they always are, and I got this shot just before I hit the road for Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got the bike loaded up on the trailer and hitched up to my Jetta TDI Sportwagen.\u00a0 Finally hit the road at about 11:00 AM and headed toward Atlanta.\u00a0 The Jetta turns out to be an excellent little tow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/?p=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soundquarters.com\/bobsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}