{"id":194,"date":"2008-07-02T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-07-02T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T20:32:11","slug":"american-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/american-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"American Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Borders-circumnavigation-Russian-motorcycle\/dp\/0964644517\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1215025720&#038;sr=8-1\">American Borders<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/carlaking.typepad.com\/weblog\/\">Carla King<\/a>.  The woman rides around the borders of the United States on a Ural (cool looking Russian sidecar motorcycle).  I can&#8217;t get enough of books like this and it makes me want to quit my job and ride around the country for a few months.  Of course, not being independently wealthy, I can&#8217;t do that.  What I can do is save up my vacation time (accrued, annoying) and try for a 2 week trip next summer.  Or maybe I could swing a 4 week trip with some unpaid time off in there.  Either way, I&#8217;m really not good at accruing vacation days because I tend to use them one or two at a time on long weekend trips.  With a specific big trip to work towards, it might be a little easier though.  Hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading American Borders by Carla King. The woman rides around the borders of the United States on a Ural (cool looking Russian sidecar motorcycle). I can&#8217;t get enough of books like this and it makes me want to quit my job and ride around the country for a few months. Of course, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}