{"id":462,"date":"2009-05-29T18:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2009-05-29T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T23:51:51","slug":"we-left-at-the-crack-of-1015-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"We left at the crack of 10:18 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2009\/05\/lunch.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch stop just before the tire blew!\" title=\"lunch\" width=\"162\" height=\"353\" class=\"size-full alignleft wp-image-461\" \/>We weren&#8217;t very far down the road when we stopped for lunch at a picnic area. I took this picture trying to capture the beauty of the Texas Hill Country in the background &#8230; bright green foliage against dramatic puffy clouds in a vivid blue sky. That effort failed but I did succeed in documenting that, at the time of our stop, both trailer tires looked fine. Just a few miles down the road, the tire nearest the trailer door blew out. We really didn&#8217;t feel it but Steve noticed another driver looking at us funny and pulled over. It&#8217;s a good thing he did as all that was left of that tire was a few pitiful shreds of rubber. Not the best way to start a long drive! Before we got it changed a DOT employee and a State Trooper both stopped to make sure we were okay. The Trooper suggested we should replace the tire asap and directed us to a tire shop in the upcoming town of Brady. As we drove off we passed another car changing their tire and I started to wonder if the tire shop and the Trooper were in cahoots to take advantage of travelers. Especially ones with California plates! Steve thinks I&#8217;m being paranoid but I don&#8217;t know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We weren&#8217;t very far down the road when we stopped for lunch at a picnic area. I took this picture trying to capture the beauty of the Texas Hill Country in the background &#8230; bright green foliage against dramatic puffy clouds in a vivid blue sky. That effort failed but I did succeed in documenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}