{"id":6326,"date":"2020-09-02T07:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2020-09-02T07:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:28:46","slug":"a-note-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/a-note-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6326\" data-postid=\"6326\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6326 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Texas. New York. Utah. Louisiana. Just some of the many out-of-state plates I&#8217;ve seen on all manner of vehicles at beach waysides on the Oregon Coast. Vans. Buses. Sedans. RVS. Trucks. More than a few come complete with makeshift living quarters mounted on the rigs. I even saw a hearse retrofitted as a a camping vessel of some kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder when it will let up. I wonder if rain is the cure, real hard core November rain that makes it difficult and uncomfortable to do anything outside. I have felt like talking to some of these travelers, and then I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is morning. I am writing this from a picnic table overlooking the ocean. Some pelicans just undulated over the waves. In the sky, contrails and smoke from the California fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started another fort today, just after dawn. On my walk back from the beach, I picked up a handwritten note on yellow legal paper along the road and read it. Someone was making a budget for how they might survive for the rest of 2020 and a list of where they might live. It seems like they are bouncing around. It was a remarkable historical document of the diaspora going on. I normally retain these kind of writing artifacts, but not this one. I unfolded it and left the note flat on the ground in the shoulder where others might choose to read it and reflect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas. New York. Utah. Louisiana. Just some of the many out-of-state plates I&#8217;ve seen on all manner of vehicles at beach waysides on the Oregon Coast. Vans. Buses. Sedans. RVS. Trucks. More than a few come complete with makeshift living quarters mounted on the rigs. I even saw a hearse retrofitted as a a camping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}