{"id":4958,"date":"2011-05-04T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2011-05-04T01:30:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:30:03","slug":"hot-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Hot here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have made it to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Without killing anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I know!<\/p>\n<p>How unexpected is that?<\/p>\n<p>Very, obv.<\/p>\n<p>The drive through the desert was hot, cold, interesting and boring all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Hot outside; hot enough to fry an egg on the roof of a bald traffic cop.<\/p>\n<p>Cold inside; with the air con working full-time in the car.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to see the natural shapes in the desert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4960\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4960\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4960 \" title=\"Mojave Desert with snowy mountains behind\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1473-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1473-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1473-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click twice for the big pic - there&#39;s snow!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boring because, after three hours, those shapes all start to look the same.<\/p>\n<p>We did have a very quick pitstop at Edwards AFB, to say hello to an old friend.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I was at Edwards we flew in under the cover of darkness, worked like hell while we were there and, to add insult to injury, our CO wouldn&#8217;t let us leave leave the camp.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit weird to see the front of the place, this time.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4959\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4959\" title=\"Edwards AFB\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1468-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1468-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1468-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to organise visits, trips and stuff, so we&#8217;re going to be busy for the next hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, if you want an audio experience of the most recent leg of the journey, can I suggest that you have a listen to <a title=\"This Reality Podcast #165\" href=\"http:\/\/thisrealitypodcast.com\/?p=1660\" target=\"_blank\">This Reality Podcast #165<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of audio segments recorded between Monterey and Mariposa.<\/p>\n<p>Some of it actually interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I know!<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;da thort it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have made it to Las Vegas. Without killing anyone. I know! How unexpected is that? Very, obv. The drive through the desert was hot,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}