{"id":338,"date":"2006-01-06T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/01\/06\/first-2006-road-trip\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T21:34:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T02:34:18","slug":"first-2006-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/338","title":{"rendered":"First 2006 road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re leaving together for our first journey north in quite a while, and, after the pattern of last year, I feel a bit rusty getting ready. Before our arrival at Bruce&#8217;s place, we&#8217;ll spend some time at the Menke Homestead in Dark County, Ohio. I met James Michael Menke in 1970 as a<br \/>\nfall-quarter freshman at the University of Cincinnati. After running<br \/>\ninto John Michael Hoover (a grade-school chum from the community our<br \/>\nfamily had left six years previously), I soon became aware of &#8220;the<br \/>\nMikes,&#8221; two quickly popular roommates living a couple dorm floors beneath me. Somebody must have considered it logical to pair a James and John without knowing that they both went by their common middle name of Mike. 35 years later, one Mike has long vanished, but the other is<br \/>\nstill my &#8220;best buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re leaving together for our first journey north in quite a while, and, after the pattern of last year, I feel a bit rusty getting ready. Before our arrival at Bruce&#8217;s place, we&#8217;ll spend some time at the Menke Homestead in Dark County, Ohio. I met James Michael Menke in 1970 as a fall-quarter freshman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}