{"id":52,"date":"2003-12-28T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2003-12-28T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2003-12-29T02:17:10","slug":"whistle-stop-across-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/28\/whistle-stop-across-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistle-stop across Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a busy but enjoyable trip to (and across) Missouri. Approximate timeline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>arrived in Liberty on the 24th, then immediately went to Catherine&#8217;s grandmother&#8217;s house in Lee&#8217;s Summit for Christmas dinner. If I can fix a turkey dinner with Parker House Rolls and all the trimmings when I&#8217;m 92, I&#8217;ll be doing pretty well.\n<li>took the train from Independence to Kirkwood to visit Joe &amp; Katie, Catherine&#8217;s brother and sister-in-law.\n<li>stayed in ye olde cheesye Cheshire Inn in St Louis, which is a hilariously fakey (but pretty good) &#8220;old&#8221; hotel.\n<li>took Amtrak back to Independence.\n<li>did the necessary shopping rounds in Liberty: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamars.com\/\">LaMar&#8217;s Donuts<\/a>, clothes shopping at Feldman&#8217;s Farm &amp; Home (aka The Feed Store), and browsing books at By The Book on the square.\n<li>had lunch at the incomparable Englewood Caf&eacute; in Independence.\n<li>went to see Carlyle&#8217;s art exhibit downtown, which turned more into performance art, as the gallery was closed.\n<li>hung out with Catherine&#8217;s high-school friends in Westport, and had the importance (and usefulness) of dry &#8220;bible highlighters&#8221; explained to me by Carl. Then we ate at the Jerusalem Caf&eacute;.\n<\/ul>\n<p>&hellip;&nbsp;and now we&#8217;re home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a busy but enjoyable trip to (and across) Missouri. Approximate timeline: arrived in Liberty on the 24th, then immediately went to Catherine&#8217;s grandmother&#8217;s house in Lee&#8217;s Summit for Christmas dinner. If I can fix a turkey dinner with Parker House Rolls and all the trimmings when I&#8217;m 92, I&#8217;ll be doing pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[1055,793],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-missouri","tag-train"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}