{"id":297,"date":"2016-11-15T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-11-15T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:46:21","slug":"i-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/2016\/11\/15\/i-35\/","title":{"rendered":"I-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m intimately familiar with the long, gray stretches of I-35. Last year after Thanksgiving break, I spent six hours in driving rain on the highway, driving back from Dallas to Austin. The road, if you spend enough time on it, becomes like a person; narrow, battered shoulders, a torso that stretches 200 miles long, vessels that sprout from its limbs into cities like Waco and West. At its head, the road dissolves into Austin, a tangled hive of lesser streets. In the heart of the road, halfway between Dallas and Austin, you can find I-35 at its most repellent: barren, hemmed by construction, mottled by gas stations and fast food. The belly of the beast.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_306\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-image-306 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/rainy-highway-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"rainy-highway\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/rainy-highway-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/rainy-highway-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/rainy-highway-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/rainy-highway-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/11\/rainy-highway.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/p-1149529\/?no_redirect<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m intimately familiar with the long, gray stretches of I-35. Last year after Thanksgiving break, I spent six hours in driving rain on the highway, driving back from Dallas to Austin. The road, if you spend enough time on it, becomes like a person; narrow, battered shoulders, a torso that stretches 200 miles long, vessels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}