{"id":640,"date":"2009-08-17T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2009-08-17T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T22:16:28","slug":"google-maps-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/google-maps-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"google maps road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this in the car on my return trip to Hartsfield Sunday and then Stephen brought it up again this afternoon, so I suppose I should mention it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlemapsroadtrip.com\/\">two friends<\/a>, one who lives in LA and one who lives in Richmond, VA, go on a cross-country road-trip using google maps.\u00a0\u00a0 Which wouldn&#8217;t be remarkable, except that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=111921898\">never leave their houses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve ridden roller coasters, we took a tour of the Hoover Dam underneath, we saw the electrical rooms, we went on a helicopter ride in the Grand Canyon,&#8221; Baldes says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And a mule ride,&#8221; Horowitz adds.<\/p>\n<p>At one point they &#8220;camped&#8221; at the Grand Canyon and went stargazing, coming up with new constellations throughout the night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this in the car on my return trip to Hartsfield Sunday and then Stephen brought it up again this afternoon, so I suppose I should mention it: two friends, one who lives in LA and one who lives in Richmond, VA, go on a cross-country road-trip using google maps.\u00a0\u00a0 Which wouldn&#8217;t be remarkable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[158,850],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-digital","tag-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}