{"id":181,"date":"2004-07-02T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/02\/north_to_the_in-laws.html"},"modified":"2004-07-02T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T20:53:07","slug":"north_to_the_in-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/02\/north_to_the_in-laws.html","title":{"rendered":"North to the In-Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee and I are all ready for our trip to Alaska, for ten days of hanging out, meeting Mom, visiting my haunts, and figuring out where it is exactly I came from.  I&#8217;m excited to show her where I grew up, went to school, learned to drive, learned to ski, bought my first cd, got in my first car accident, and everything else in between.  She said a funny thing yesterday, that it&#8217;s a little strange, finally coming to a place about which you know very little.  It&#8217;s almost a little sad, that all of that unknown quality about it, all of the wildness and weirdness and general blank-ness about it in her mind will be erased and replaced by equal parts midnight sun and strip mall.  I&#8217;ll do my best to show her the highlights: home in Anchorage, 4th of July in Seward, the Spit in Homer, the Parks Highway, Denali, Chugach State Park, and whatever else we can fit in.  I just hope the <a title=\"Fires challenge Interior communities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/multimedia\/venetie_fire\/index.html\">massive cloud of smoke<\/a> doesn&#8217;t obscure everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee and I are all ready for our trip to Alaska, for ten days of hanging out, meeting Mom, visiting my haunts, and figuring out where it is exactly I came from. I&#8217;m excited to show her where I grew up, went to school, learned to drive, learned to ski, bought my first cd, got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}