{"id":373,"date":"2010-02-06T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T19:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=373"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:27:20","slug":"home-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/06\/home-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Home at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday, January 8, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a long day&#8217;s driving, I finally made it home. I didn&#8217;t get off to such a good start though. It was still snowing a bit in the roads were messy when I set out in the morning. Worse, when I got to the freeways of Indianapolis, I realized that my washer fluid wasn&#8217;t working properly. Turns out the washer fluid I bought further south that was supposedly rated for down to -30 Fahrenheit actually froze in the tubes. Trucks kept spraying me, and there was nowhere to pull off, so I had to keep my wipers on at the fastest speed to clear the windows enough that I could barely see. It was very scary, and it was a relief when I finally got to a place I could get off the road and get some better washer fluid.<\/p>\n<p>I headed north to Fort Wayne and then cut across smaller roads to Toledo and then up to Detroit where I crossed to Windsor on the Ambassador bridge. I&#8217;d bought gas before getting to Detroit not realizing that they have a duty-free gas station before the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>It was a relief to be back in Canada, and highway 401 was very clear until I hit the rush-hour traffic of Toronto. Only when I got near Trenton did I start hitting slippery roads again, but after Kingston it was fine.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to be back knowing I had a few days to rest before returning to work and the long drive was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 8, 2010 After a long day&#8217;s driving, I finally made it home. I didn&#8217;t get off to such a good start though. It was still snowing a bit in the roads were messy when I set out in the morning. Worse, when I got to the freeways of Indianapolis, I realized that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-southwest-united-states","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}