{"id":300,"date":"2011-07-27T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2011-09-16T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:06:46","slug":"road-trips-the-esthetic-of-lostness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Road trips: The esthetic of lostness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventure.howstuffworks.com\/destinations\/road-trips\/road-trip.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Interstate Highways\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/df\/Interstate_Highways.png\/800px-Interstate_Highways.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>Road trips answer a deep human yearning to be free. For a time at least, they allow us to escape our quotidian cares and simply be. At the same time, they indulge our love affair with automobiles and our craving for novelty. As authors such as Jack Kerouac remind us, the road is where we discover our country, our fellow human beings\u2014and ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventure.howstuffworks.com\/destinations\/road-trips\/road-trip.htm\" target=\"popup\">How Road Trips Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road trips answer a deep human yearning to be free. For a time at least, they allow us to escape our quotidian cares and simply be. At the same time, they indulge our love affair with automobiles and our craving for novelty. As authors such as Jack Kerouac remind us, the road is where we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road trips: The esthetic of lostness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,63,31,30,43,90],"tags":[27,141,142],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-culture","category-how-to","category-top-10","category-travel","category-writing","tag-authors","tag-highways","tag-scenic-roads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}