{"id":121,"date":"2004-06-27T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-06-27T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T04:34:00","slug":"on-a-highway-to-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"On a Highway to Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/webstuff\/roadtrippers001.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When I got home Thursday night, there was a message on my answering machine from my friend, Steve. He and another friend, Jeff were on their way to Los Angeles. Keep in mind, they live in Louisiana (where I&#8217;m originally from) 2000 miles away. Apparently they had been driving around the West in a van going where they pleased from day-to-day. They stopped in Vegas, won a wad of cash, and decided to head for L.A. and visit. I gave them directions, they got lost, and eventually pulled up to the apartment. Jennifer and I took them into Hollywood to party the night away and do a little bit of sightseeing. We had a damn good time and it was nice to see some of my buddies (especially a surprise visit) since I haven&#8217;t been back to Louisiana in over 18 months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/webstuff\/roadtrippers002.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>They have some damn good stories from their trip too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home Thursday night, there was a message on my answering machine from my friend, Steve. He and another friend, Jeff were on their way to Los Angeles. Keep in mind, they live in Louisiana (where I&#8217;m originally from) 2000 miles away. Apparently they had been driving around the West in a van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}