{"id":1125,"date":"2011-01-27T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2011-01-27T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T23:05:39","slug":"convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderful wife is getting excited for her trip to WPPI in sunny and beautiful Las Vegas.  Each day, as the event draws closer, I see various conversations and arrangements being swapped via Twitter.  One such exchange about the upcoming drive down south prompted a little lunch-time conversation and I attempted to make a joke that fell flat on the kitchen floor as it left my lips.<\/p>\n<p>It went something like this:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"conversation\">\n<li class=\"even\"><strong>Her:<\/strong> They want to caravan down&#8230; what do you think?<\/li>\n<li class=\"odd\"><strong>Me:<\/strong> Sure, sounds good.<\/li>\n<li class=\"even\"><strong>Her:<\/strong> What should I say?<\/li>\n<li class=\"odd\"><strong>Me:<\/strong> Just tell everybody &#8220;it looks like we got us a convoy&#8221;! <br \/>(in my best trucker radio voice)<\/li>\n<li class=\"even\"><strong>Her:<\/strong> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li class=\"odd\"><strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8230;*eyebrows*<\/li>\n<li class=\"even\"><strong>Her:<\/strong> &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems my wife has never been exposed to this integral piece of Americana.  This must be remedied immediately.  <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, she married a born-and-bred road trip lovin&#8217;, CB totin&#8217;, truck stop loiterin&#8217; yokel who knows of such things.<\/p>\n<p>And so, for you my dear wife.  The origin of the phrase &#8220;Looks like we got us a convoy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ui360\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/convoy.mp3\">Convoy by C. W. McCall<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>(Click to play with my fancy new inline player.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderful wife is getting excited for her trip to WPPI in sunny and beautiful Las Vegas. Each day, as the event draws closer, I see various conversations and arrangements being swapped via Twitter. One such exchange about the upcoming drive down south prompted a little lunch-time conversation and I attempted to make a joke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95,57,94],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-asides","tag-convoy","tag-music","tag-roadtrip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}