{"id":230,"date":"2004-09-19T21:27:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T04:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2004-09-19T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T04:27:55","slug":"a-raw-deal-to-rye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/19\/a-raw-deal-to-rye\/","title":{"rendered":"A Raw Deal to Rye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/lockehart\">Lane<\/a>, I got a quick trip up into Connecticut. He was taking some Japanese friends living in NYC to visit life outside the city. I hung with Heidi and Martin while the four of them went canoeing and various other things in the Litchfield, CT area. <\/p>\n<p>All went well on our way back in our rented PT Cruiser until we hit <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT&#038;csz=armonk%2C+ny&#038;country=us&#038;new=1&#038;name=&#038;qty=\">Armonk, NY<\/a> and Lane&#8217;s friend who was driving said that the accelerator wasn&#8217;t working right, roughly around 8 pm. We pulled off to check it out in a parking lot at the intersection of Highways 433 and 22. After letting the car sit for five minutes we started it again, or rather tried to. It sputtered and then died. A few more times it didn&#8217;t even sputter.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short (and two French vanilla coffees later), myself and the two girls ended up getting driven by a random stranger to the nearby town of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT&#038;csz=rye%2C+ny&#038;country=us&#038;new=1&#038;name=&#038;qty=\">Rye, NY<\/a> where we caught the Metro North back into the city. Lane reported that as of 11:30 pm he and the Japanese guy friend of his (I forget his name) had gotten a new rental and were finally en route back. <\/p>\n<p>By then, I was making myself a sandwich for dinner, on rye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So courtesy of Lane, I got a quick trip up into Connecticut. He was taking some Japanese friends living in NYC to visit life outside the city. I hung with Heidi and Martin while the four of them went canoeing and various other things in the Litchfield, CT area. All went well on our way back in our rented PT Cruiser until we hit Armonk, NY and Lane&#8217;s friend who was driving said that the accelerator wasn&#8217;t working right, roughly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-travels","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}