{"id":75743,"date":"2011-12-17T15:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/75743\/astro-joko-returning-road\/"},"modified":"2011-12-17T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:20:43","slug":"astro-joko-returning-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/75743\/astro-joko-returning-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro Joko: Returning to the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">About a month ago, I described some seemingly fortuitous coincidences, signs, if you will, surrounding the purchase of a used Pontiac TransPort that would eventually get me back on the road.\u00a0 Turned out that the thing had a bad heater core and I ended up returning it to the dealership.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Well, there are similar good omens surrounding my new vehicle!\u00a0 We have to go back 30 years to find them though.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure at least a couple of you (okay, maybe just Moosehammer) played the game Dungeons &amp; Dragons as youngsters.\u00a0 It\u2019s a role-playing game where you make up a character and go out adventuring.\u00a0 My primary character, the one whom I played the most, had a really dumb name.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t dumb to me at the time, but it sounds more like a superhero than a swashbuckler.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">I was \u201c<strong>Astroman<\/strong>\u201d in D&amp;D world back in the early 80\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward three decades, and once again, I am an Astro man\u2026\u00a0 as in a Chevy Astro\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">It\u2019s hard to describe how awesome it makes me feel to be back out on the road again, but I do my best in this introductory video.\u00a0 Enjoy!<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<object><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I described some seemingly fortuitous coincidences, signs, if you will, surrounding the purchase of a used Pontiac TransPort that would eventually get me back on the road.\u00a0 Turned out that the thing had a bad heater core and I ended up returning it to the dealership. Well, there are similar good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[387,4644,81,3833],"class_list":["post-75743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-car","tag-chevy","tag-joko","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}