{"id":136,"date":"2007-09-28T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T06:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-09-28T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T06:05:04","slug":"international-falls-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"International Falls to Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived in Denver this evening for our friend&#8217;s wedding (Kathryn Matousek, if you need to know), on a mostly uneventful trip. One part of it stood out, and if I could have found a way to take a picture without looking like a complete douche, I would have.<br \/>\nWe got on the bus to the car rental farm out in the dreary brown grass surrounding Denver, and this couple sat down beside us moments later. Her: Farrah Fawcett hair, purple, pinstriped shirt with a butterfly collar, tight Jordache-style jeans, and beige zip-up, square-toed leather boots (inside said pantlegs). Massively awesome. Him: Yellow t-shirt, beige khakis, glasses with neck strap, and white running shoes with VELCRO straps.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no fashion plate by any stretch, and I&#8217;m not usually this shallow, but these two totally, fully rocked my world for the rest of the day.<br \/>\nA slightly-more-insightful aside to the couple in question: I noticed that she had a substantial diamond on her engagement ring\/wedding band combo, and was truly struck by the universality of the &#8220;rock&#8221; concept. Here&#8217;s a couple who are obviously not big spenders, judging by the wardrobes, but there&#8217;s no question he\/they dropped several thousand dollars on that ring. I&#8217;m *so* glad Frances isn&#8217;t a traditionalist; we&#8217;d still be paying for a ring.<br \/>\nBy the way, if you ask about how badly lost we got in Denver on the way home from dinner, you will get beaten. Think &#8220;Big Ben, Parliament&#8221; &#8212; a la <a href=\"http:\/\/poll.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089670\/\">European Vacation,<\/a> but involving a Target store and a ridiculously-designed interstate highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived in Denver this evening for our friend&#8217;s wedding (Kathryn Matousek, if you need to know), on a mostly uneventful trip. One part of it stood out, and if I could have found a way to take a picture without looking like a complete douche, I would have. We got on the bus to the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=136\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Falls to Denver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lincoln","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}