{"id":127,"date":"2018-08-28T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T23:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2018-08-28T23:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T23:43:39","slug":"the-road-trip-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/the-road-trip-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Trip Has Begun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-132  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ready-to-go-e1535512086311-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-128 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Illinois-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"266\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Current location:<\/strong> Effingham, IL<br \/>\n<strong>High temperature:<\/strong> 101 degrees at a humid rest stop in Missouri<br \/>\n<strong>Weirdest sight of the day:<\/strong>\u00a0Man running across I-70 right in front of our car. Eep!<br \/>\nWe left Denver on Sunday, August 26, with all of our possessions either in our car or our storage unit.<br \/>\nIn the first three days, we&#8217;ve driven 953 miles across four states (three just today!) and had a successful visit with family.<br \/>\nYesterday we had the moving experience of visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/brvb\/index.htm\">Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site<\/a> in Topeka, Kansas. Having recently read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathankozol.com\/books\/the-shame-of-the-nation\/\">The Shame of the Nation<\/a>: <em>The Restoration of Apartheid Schools in America<\/em>, we know there&#8217;s much work yet to be done to get to truly integrated and equal schools in this country.<br \/>\nThis is the mural that was commissioned to be painted across the street from the site:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-129 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mural-topeka-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"294\" \/><br \/>\nWhat are we doing on this trip? We are visiting friends, family and beautiful places. But we are also <a href=\"https:\/\/distantpeakproductions.com\/seekingsolutions.html\">making a documentary<\/a>. More on that in coming posts!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Current location: Effingham, IL High temperature: 101 degrees at a humid rest stop in Missouri Weirdest sight of the day:\u00a0Man running across I-70 right in front of our car. Eep! We left Denver on Sunday, August 26, with all of our possessions either in our car or our storage unit. In the first three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/the-road-trip-has-begun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Road Trip Has Begun!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantpeakproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}