{"id":7227,"date":"2017-08-26T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/26\/fiftieth-state-milestone\/"},"modified":"2017-08-26T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T00:28:48","slug":"fiftieth-state-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/26\/fiftieth-state-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiftieth State Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/allstates.jpg' title='All Fifty'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/allstates.jpg' alt='All Fifty' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.maploco.com\/visited-states\/mine.php\">Create Your Own Visited States Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it is now official that I have set foot in all fifty states. Damsel and I arrived at the campground near Spirit Lake, Iowa, today, and are camping here tonight. <\/p>\n<p>We will be exploring the &#8220;<em>Duh<\/em> State&#8221; over the next few days. You know, <em>Duh<\/em> Buque and <em>Duh<\/em> Moines (Damsel&#8217;s joke), before heading back toward Arizona with several more interesting places to stop along the way. We have plans for visiting several of the cities here including the two mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All Fifty States&#8221; has been on my bucket list since retirement several years ago. On this trip, I have blacked out three bucket listers including the all fifty, driving the &#8220;Million Dollar Highway,&#8221; and the Great American Total Eclipse of the Sun. <\/p>\n<p>Damsel and I are working on more items for the bucket list. We think the next item will be to go and see our third great grandchild, a boy, who will be born close to Thanksgiving Day 2017. We&#8217;re looking forward to that excursion too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create Your Own Visited States Map Well, it is now official that I have set foot in all fifty states. Damsel and I arrived at the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","category-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}