{"id":1870,"date":"2008-02-05T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2008-02-05T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:48:00","slug":"travels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, while on our way to dinner in the lovely town of Tucumcari, we happened upon a practice of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesalands.edu\/Student\/rodeo.htm\">rodeo team<\/a> at the local college.  They were roping calves &#8230; and I gained a new appreciation for rodeo.  Seriously.  Right where the rubber meets the road, those sporting events are based on real farm and ranching skills.  Those kids could ride!  Plus, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesalands.edu\/Student\/coach.htm\">coach<\/a> (once we got him talking) was seriously cool!  The guy has been flown all over the world as part of the USA rodeo team.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we visited Roswell, NM.  Site of strange goings-on about 60 years ago.  Some kinda flying thing crashed into a field, a rancher brought a chunk of it to the sheriff, and there ensued some frantic military ass-covering.  Somehow this led to a whole town devoted to the sale of alien themed kitsch.  Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>want<\/em> to believe in aliens.  Seriously, I do:  The world would be so much cooler and more surreal if we were being observed and occasionally prodded by little green men.  Sadly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roswellufomuseum.com\/\">Roswell Alien Museum<\/a> didn&#8217;t strengthen that belief at all.  It&#8217;s a relatively level headed presentation of a bunch of facts and observations that lead me to think that (a) yes, certainly, the government covered something up.  Duh.  (b) There&#8217;s no real reason to assume it had to be extraterrestrial.  Ditto with most of the other observations.  <\/p>\n<p>I plan to spend tomorrow (Ash Wednesday) in the underworld, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/archive\/cave\/home.htm\">Carlsbad Caverns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, while on our way to dinner in the lovely town of Tucumcari, we happened upon a practice of the rodeo team at the local college. They were roping calves &#8230; and I gained a new appreciation for rodeo. Seriously. Right where the rubber meets the road, those sporting events are based on real <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1870\">Travels<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[80,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}