{"id":149,"date":"2008-03-08T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-03-11T01:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T05:01:15","slug":"hpsbfft2008-chapter-1-burlington-vt-to-binghamton-ny-286-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"HPSBFFT2008 &#8211; Chapter 1: Burlington, VT to Binghamton, NY (286 mi.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Binghamton, New York!  I like to call it &#8220;the Bing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I realized on the drive over here that I am approximately one million years old. Or a pussy. Or both.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, honestly. It was raining &#8211; <em>raining &#8211; <\/em> for most of the way here. Nothing more. Nothing scarier. But I drove as if I were terrified. And at times, I was terrified. My honda civic weighs about as much as a two-ply tissue and any amount of wind or water will send it careening all over the road. So I drove slow. Too slow, probably.<\/p>\n<p>But I made it (eventually) and was greeted with warm friendship, hot spiedies (look it up) and cold beer. After some music and some <u>Flight of the Conchords<\/u>, Nick and I played a furious session of Connect Four and drank what will probably prove to be too many beers.<\/p>\n<p>This leg of the trip has featured nothing preservation-related to speak of, unless you count some stressing over a phone interview I have scheduled for next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I turn south and head to Baltimore, for an agressive schedule of catching up with friends.<\/p>\n<p>Will I have time for fast food breakfast? Oh, rest assured, I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Binghamton, New York! I like to call it &#8220;the Bing&#8221;. I realized on the drive over here that I am approximately one million years old. Or a pussy. Or both. I mean, honestly. It was raining &#8211; raining &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}