{"id":6045,"date":"2011-05-17T22:44:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T03:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2011-05-17T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T03:50:09","slug":"truck-stop-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=6045","title":{"rendered":"Truck Stop Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation Brian and I had while we were driving to KC over the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ME:<\/strong> Was that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.betojunction.com\/\" >Beto Junction<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIAN:<\/strong> Yes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>ME:<\/strong> Darn it!  I wanted to stop there.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIAN:<\/strong> Why?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ME:<\/strong> I love Beto Junction!  It&#8217;s my favorite truck stop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIAN:<\/strong> [<em>giving me a strange, you-are-a-crazy-woman look<\/em>] Have you even been there?  And when?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ME:<\/strong> It was 12-13 years ago.  Before we met.  I just remember making a pit stop and browsing their store.  They had these cool, funny t-shirts inside milk cartons.  They had clever sayings on them.  It looked like you were buying milk but, when you open it, there&#8217;s a t-shirt inside.  Every time I drive by Beto Junction, it makes me think of that day I was in there and saw those clever shirts in the cool packaging.  What about you?  Don&#8217;t you have any fond truck stop memories?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIAN:<\/strong> Wow.  I try to forget <strong>all<\/strong> my truck stop memories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL. I think most of Brian&#8217;s truck stop memories consist of creepy truckers, filthy bathrooms and bad food.  I try to block those from memory also.  =P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation Brian and I had while we were driving to KC over the weekend&#8230; ME: Was that Beto Junction? BRIAN: Yes. ME: Darn it! I wanted to stop there. BRIAN: Why? ME: I love Beto Junction! It&#8217;s my favorite truck stop. BRIAN: [giving me a strange, you-are-a-crazy-woman look] Have you even been there? And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[710,1100,138,1487,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}