{"id":188,"date":"2008-09-07T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-09-07T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T09:13:56","slug":"fasten-your-seatbelts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Fasten Your Seatbelts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have the video up that I shot a week ago.  You can see it broadcasting on the screen to the left and you can click &#8220;full screen&#8221;, or the link at the upper right &#8220;mogulus&#8221; will take you to the channel at the hosting site.  It may stream better there and you will also see our nifty banner marquee (ha ha).<br \/>\nThe soundtrack is entirely from the car stereo so you may be impressed by the quality.  I apologize also about the dirty windshield during parts of this.  I thought it would contribute a stunning sense of nouveau-realism to the film but I was wrong.  Also I was out of wiper fluid.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere are some random photos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/080829125small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/080829125small-400x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"080829125small\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/080829125small-400x288.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/080829125small.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis one is for Sarah.  As you can clearly see in this photo, Pittsburgh and Dubai are cosmically linked as sharing a unique liberality about which way one orients one&#8217;s car while parking on a two-way street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082737small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082737small-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"08082737small\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082737small-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082737small.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYes.  We are tempted but have not done it yet.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082738small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082738small-280x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"08082738small\" width=\"280\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082738small-280x400.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/08082738small.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA lot of the trucks around here are decorated beautifully like they belong to Ken Kesey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/22\/Furthur_02.jpg\/800px-Furthur_02.jpg\">Merry Pranksters<\/a>.  Of course we&#8217;re going to step up when we finally get the Peugeot which may be this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have the video up that I shot a week ago. You can see it broadcasting on the screen to the left and you can click &#8220;full screen&#8221;, or the link at the upper right &#8220;mogulus&#8221; will take you to the channel at the hosting site. It may stream better there and you will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fasten Your Seatbelts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}