{"id":25252,"date":"2014-03-21T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25252"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:12:14","slug":"tucson-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25252","title":{"rendered":"Tucson.  Hot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hare Moon<\/p>\n<p>Tucson. \u00a086 and sunny with a chance of elderly.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I felt like the northern cliche while toddling along on Highway 10. \u00a0The folks back home tell me about wintry mix and plowable snow; I&#8217;ve got sun glasses and shorts. \u00a0What would you think about a gray haired guy driving a car with Minnesota plates down here?<\/p>\n<p>In the businesses I&#8217;ve been in there are a lot of frail elderly, folks bent and slow, using carts or walkers. \u00a0Not surprising, but sobering anyhow. \u00a0I wondered at one point if there&#8217;s an assumption here that if an older person is involved in an accident, that it&#8217;s their fault. \u00a0Don&#8217;t know, but it seems possible.<\/p>\n<p>The American flag is prominent. \u00a0This is a redder state than the El Dorado flavored plains state red. \u00a0Both here and in Texas I get the sense these are people who want to be left alone, able to try whatever they want to make money. \u00a0Able to engage in whatever recreational pursuits they want. \u00a0With no body looking over their shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>My inclination? \u00a0Let&#8217;s let&#8217;em be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hare Moon Tucson. \u00a086 and sunny with a chance of elderly. Yes, I felt like the northern cliche while toddling along on Highway 10. \u00a0The folks back home tell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tucson.  Hot.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25253,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25252\/revisions\/25253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}