{"id":201,"date":"2003-01-15T23:56:53","date_gmt":"2003-01-16T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/15\/to-la\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T23:59:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T06:59:43","slug":"to-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/15\/to-la\/","title":{"rendered":"To L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drive to LA \u2013 beautiful, actually.                 I never realized the road to Southern California was so flat,                 although I passed                 a cattle ranch that had thousands of cattle and no grass. Maybe                 it was one of those cattle processing farms that I read about                 in &#8220;Fast Food Nation&#8221; or saw on Frontline. I saw                 two Hummer H2s. I&#8217;m most definitely not in San Francisco                 anymore. I meet my cousin Diana and her husband Peter at their                 place in Santa Monica. We go to a restaurant, and then Diana                 and I head over to a bar called &#8220;The Brig&#8221;. It&#8217;s                 a dive bar redone in LA fashion. The women are really skinny,               and evidence of cosmetic surgery seems abundant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/15\/to-la\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive to LA \u2013 beautiful, actually. I never realized the road to Southern California was so flat, although I passed a cattle ranch that had thousands of cattle and no grass. Maybe it was one of those cattle processing farms that I read about in &#8220;Fast Food Nation&#8221; or saw on Frontline. I saw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/15\/to-la\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To L.A.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/15\/to-la\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics","category-road-trip","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}