{"id":610,"date":"2006-11-11T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=610"},"modified":"2006-11-11T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:36:00","slug":"driving-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2006\/11\/11\/driving-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not uncommon to see some startling sights from my car. Here are a few recollections from the past week.<\/p>\n<p>As I wait for cattle to cross the road returning from San Antonio, I watch from from my car as a bull attempts repeatedly to mount a cow in the middle of the street, stopping traffic on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I pass one building on my way out of Tactic, there is a man with magnifying glass eyewear smoking a cigar standing in the doorway. He never has a beard, yet he looks like he never shaves either. He simply stands unaccompanied learing at passersby.<\/p>\n<p>A Mazda pick-up truck is taxiing a half dozen people on the highway going about 20 km\/hr. As I pass them, the front driver wheel is wobbling uncontrollably.<\/p>\n<p>I wait in my car for Walter to come down from his 2nd story home that overlooks a pasture. A cow is runs down the street and dives through a barbed wire fence then holds it&#8217;s right rear leg close to her body as it took a good slicing on a barb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not uncommon to see some startling sights from my car. Here are a few recollections from the past week. As I wait for cattle to cross the road returning from San Antonio, I watch from from my car as a bull attempts repeatedly to mount a cow in the middle of the street, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2006\/11\/11\/driving-around\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-610","6":"format-standard","7":"category-guatemala","8":"category-poverty","9":"category-travel","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}