{"id":156,"date":"2007-02-25T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-02-25T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T17:25:00","slug":"giddy-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Giddy Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There is a lot going on. The Houston Livestock and Rodeo is in town, and remember when I told you that my car makes me smile? Well now I am downright giddy.<\/p>\n<p>Linda and I were walking down past the old saloon when all of the sudden there was dust everywhere and a lone guitar twanged in the distance <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">signifying<\/span> something significant was about to happen. The <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">guttural<\/span> sound turned into a roar like the noise a 300hp V8 would make if it were to be let loose rounding a corner. I had to think fast, convertible &#8211; check, GT &#8211; check, automatic &#8211; check, heated seats (hey, it can get nippy out here on the plains) &#8211; check! I made my move and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">lassoed<\/span> that Mustang. Can I keep it Linda? Can I? Can I?<\/p>\n<p>So now when I pass by the same trees and small imports, my smile is a little wider, my foot a little heavier and life is even better.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thechristys.net\/uploaded_images\/Mustang-704495.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot going on. The Houston Livestock and Rodeo is in town, and remember when I told you that my car makes me smile? Well now I am downright giddy.<\/p>\n<p>Linda and I were walking down past the old saloon when all of the sudden there was dust everywhere and a lone guitar [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}