{"id":1169,"date":"2008-07-04T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2008-07-04T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:53:10","slug":"driving-through-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Driving Through Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about 25 miles west of Missoula, Montana on I-90 headed east. We&#8217;re following the Clark Fork river which goes past Heron, Montana where we started this vacation trip a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Nina is driving. We&#8217;re holding the speed down to 55 mph to save gas. Hopefully we&#8217;ll get upwards of 10 mpg on the freeway. At these speeds even the ancient VW camper vans are passing us. I think I should make a sign to go on the back of the tracker saying why we&#8217;re going slowly. We&#8217;re going to take some more trips, including out to Daryl&#8217;s wedding in October.<\/p>\n<p>The west half of Montana is quite pretty, even from the Interstate. I was expecting more traffic, though, as this is a holiday and the start of a three-day weekend. We&#8217;ll be home around 8 pm tonight. Another 7.5 hours to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about 25 miles west of Missoula, Montana on I-90 headed east. We&#8217;re following the Clark Fork river which goes past Heron, Montana where we started this vacation trip a couple of weeks ago. Nina is driving. We&#8217;re holding the speed down to 55 mph to save gas. Hopefully we&#8217;ll get upwards of 10 mpg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving Through Montana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-iR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}