{"id":11,"date":"2009-08-30T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev.local\/?p=11"},"modified":"2022-02-23T18:11:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:11:29","slug":"deserted-in-the-middle-of-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Deserted in the middle of nowhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stranded.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stranded.jpg 480w, https:\/\/yumamino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stranded-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So (which is how most San Franciscans start their sentences including&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/explanatorygap.net\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nigel<\/a>&nbsp;now) we had a little car trouble on the way to Vegas. We were still over 90 miles away when the car started to lose power and I had to pull over. The shoulder was narrow and the slow lane next to us carried massive road trains \/ semi trailers along missing us by about 10 cm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had to get towed to Baker, the nearest town (inthe middle of fracking nowhere!) &#8211; which is really pretty much just a garage, and a couple of fast food outlets. We spent around 4 hours in 117 F (47 C) heat, waiting for the rip-off mechanic to tell us that it was going to take around 5 days for the part to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luckily there was a guy who&#8217;d been there since 9am. His car was finally fixed and he drove us the rest of the way to Vegas!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16 hours after we left we finally made it!! The trip should have been half that!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So (which is how most San Franciscans start their sentences including&nbsp;Nigel&nbsp;now) we had a little car trouble on the way to Vegas. We were still over 90 miles away when the car started to lose power and I had to pull over. The shoulder was narrow and the slow lane next to us carried massive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/?p=11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deserted in the middle of nowhere!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}