{"id":1745,"date":"2008-03-20T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T03:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/03\/20\/self-passenging\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T03:51:51","slug":"self-passenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/03\/20\/self-passenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-passenging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKAY KIDS.  On the last day of March I&#8217;m leaving my suspiciously generous hosts here in NorCar and driving across the country, with stops in Louisville, Birmingham and eventually Berkeley.  After two weeks (I hope) in the latter, I&#8217;m moving up to Portland to stay from somewhere between four and nine months.  Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/02\/10\/i-know-everything-about-portland-because-i-have-been-here-for-a-week\/\" title=\"I will make sure to remember about black people by watching The Wire.\">the trap got me<\/a> after all.<\/p>\n<p>So!  Are you in a southwestern state or the Bay area?  Would you like to hang out?  Would you like to damage local hotel revenues by letting me spend a night on your couch?  <i>These can be arranged.<\/i>  Other things that can be arranged:  me renting a room or subletting an apartment from people you know because MAN it is hard to get people on Portland Craigslist to get back to you when you don&#8217;t live in the same city.  I don&#8217;t know why!<\/p>\n<p>I promise to take pictures on the trip but I can&#8217;t promise you will see them in the living future.  Oh, hey, if you want to ride out with me and fly back, as I once did with Leonard, <a href=\"mailto:xorph@xorph.com\" title=\"Spambots are so tired of seeing my mail address.  They are all like, screw that guy.\">let&#8217;s talk<\/a>.  I should warn you that due unwise purchasing decisions on my part, you will have to ride in the glove compartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKAY KIDS. On the last day of March I&#8217;m leaving my suspiciously generous hosts here in NorCar and driving across the country, with stops in Louisville, Birmingham and eventually Berkeley. After two weeks (I hope) in the latter, I&#8217;m moving up to Portland to stay from somewhere between four and nine months. Looks like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,31,27,42,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-landmarks","category-leonard-richardson","category-naivete","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}