{"id":655,"date":"2004-01-06T20:22:45","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/06\/back-in-virginia-2\/"},"modified":"2004-01-06T20:22:45","modified_gmt":"2004-01-07T01:22:45","slug":"back-in-virginia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/back-in-virginia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They took me to a seafood restaurant (I use the term loosely&#8211;they didn&#8217;t have a single seal recipe on the menu!) called Ralph &#038; Kacoos.  It was OK.  I&#8217;m not sure why They raved about it, but I guess Their tastes are different from mine.<\/p>\n<p>Then we went to the Horseshoe Casino (we started out for Harrah&#8217;s but when we didn&#8217;t have a Players card, they told us the parking garage was full, so we took our money elsewhere).  She taught me how to play slot machines.  It&#8217;s really a pretty mindless activity.  I&#8217;m not sure what the humans see in it, and I&#8217;m not sure how we managed to spend two nights in a row there without the management forcing us to smoke cigarettes&#8211;it seemed as if smoking was a prerequisite in that place.<\/p>\n<p>The weather finally got a little colder&#8211;into the thirties and low forties.  That felt a little better for me.  Naturally, the humans complained.  I rode in comfort all the way back to Virginia, and we arrived safe and sound around 3:30 this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They took me to a seafood restaurant (I use the term loosely&#8211;they didn&#8217;t have a single seal recipe on the menu!) called Ralph &#038; Kacoos. It was OK. I&#8217;m not sure why They raved about it, but I guess Their tastes are different from mine. Then we went to the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/back-in-virginia-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbotl-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}