{"id":1748,"date":"2008-04-03T08:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T13:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/04\/03\/day-2-birmingham\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T13:11:11","slug":"day-2-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/04\/03\/day-2-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s out with it:  in a blatant bid to grab some of that hot, sexy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starslip.com\/\" title=\"'Pick away, Captain, but I assure you I will have the last bone.'\">Starslip<\/a> traffic, I am taking my new <a href=\"http:\/\/store.nightlightpress.com\/jinxlet.shtml\" title=\"'Aldebaran broccoli gives them gas.'\">Jinxlet<\/a>, Hugner, with me on the road across America.  Now instead of trying awkwardly to take pictures of myself in different places, I can take pictures of the stuffed animal instead!  <i>No one has ever thought of this before.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/hugner_passenging.jpg\" alt=\"Hugner passenging.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hugner was delivered to Louisville, so I don&#8217;t have any pictures of him from Day 0 (Winston-Salem), but there he is the passenging position which was once my purview on Day 1.  Pretty cute, right!  Except after that I had to stuff him in the back so I could put my giant backpack where he is.<\/p>\n<p>The next two pictures are going to seem similar, but only until I explain that Hugner has a clever defense mechanism that makes all dogs think he is a chew toy.  I&#8217;m&#8230;  I&#8217;m not sure how the defense works.  Up top he&#8217;s with the famous Brenna, and on the bottom he&#8217;s with my friend Taylor&#8217;s dog, Lizzie.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/hugner_brenna.jpg\" alt=\"Hugner and Brenna.\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/hugner_lizzie.jpg\" alt=\"Hugner and Lizzie.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the trip is over I&#8217;ll put together a Flickr gallery of these, but even by tomorrow we should have a VERY SPECIAL Hugner road trip update!  It&#8217;s a surprise, but I will say this:  the next stop on our trip involves his <i>home planet.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of <i>Texas.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s out with it: in a blatant bid to grab some of that hot, sexy Starslip traffic, I am taking my new Jinxlet, Hugner, with me on the road across America. Now instead of trying awkwardly to take pictures of myself in different places, I can take pictures of the stuffed animal instead! No one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,48,21,83,33,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brenna-barnes","category-california","category-conspirators","category-kristofer-straub","category-photography","category-plugs","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}