{"id":90002,"date":"2012-06-03T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90002\/montana-tour-djoko-yellowstone-episode\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:15:53","slug":"montana-tour-djoko-yellowstone-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90002\/montana-tour-djoko-yellowstone-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"MONTANA! Tour d&#8217;Joko &#8211; Yellowstone: Episode Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Day two took me into Montana, a place I had never been, and one of our more unusual states.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Physically, as you\u2019ll see, the place is gorgeous (okay, most places are gorgeous in the month of May). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Politically, although a \u201cred\u201c state, they aren\u2019t the invasive, up-in-your-business kind of conservatives.  I was able to find NPR on the radio. Their Supreme Court recently upheld their own ban on corporate spending in political races, despite what the Citizens\u2019 United ruling said.  They have a Democrat as a governor, and he enjoys a 60% approval rating. Gambling is legal; it seemed like every other gas station had a casino attached.   A Montanan transplant I spent an afternoon with later in the trip described the attitude of the state thusly: \u201cAs long as what you\u2019re doing isn\u2019t hurting anyone else, Montanans are okay with it.\u201d  That\u2019s the kind of libertarianism I like. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/file\/pic\/photo\/2012\/06\/Joko_Londo-montanaman.jpg?t=4fcb9b09c1d6b\" alt=\"\" \/>When I\u2019m out on a Tour d\u2019Joko, I always record dogs when I see them in other people\u2019s car windows.\u00a0 I was doing that when the guy pictured wandered into the frame.\u00a0 Like the Magpies I end the video with, this guy just seems to epitomize the state. He\u2019s \u201cMister Montana\u201d.\u00a0 I wonder if his first name is \u201cJoe\u201d.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two took me into Montana, a place I had never been, and one of our more unusual states. Physically, as you\u2019ll see, the place is gorgeous (okay, most places are gorgeous in the month of May). Politically, although a \u201cred\u201c state, they aren\u2019t the invasive, up-in-your-business kind of conservatives. I was able to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,25],"tags":[81,398],"class_list":["post-90002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-life","category-world","tag-joko","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002","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=90002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}