{"id":475,"date":"2012-05-11T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=475"},"modified":"2012-05-11T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:26:57","slug":"on-to-the-land-of-gigantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2012\/05\/on-to-the-land-of-gigantism\/","title":{"rendered":"On to the land of gigantism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>378.2 miles, 15.873 gallons, 23.8 mpg, $57.76.<\/p>\n<p>So, why are we headed to the land of gigantism now? We did just go to the Mall of America&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>With all of the stores from all of he malls I have ever been to in my life, plus an amusement park (log ride! Ferris wheel! rollercoaster!), a mini golf course, three story robot Lego construction (form of a robot, sadly not actually robotic), and a theater. And a dozen restaurants, all horrifically generic. Oh, and three large mall-tastic food courts. And a Peeps store. It was gigantic but the theme is less gigantism and more a national cathedral to the national past time (shopping).<\/p>\n<p>But, as we head to North Dakota, the tour books say we&#8217;ll see very large animals along the roadway and at our stops: worlds largest buffalo, worlds largest heron, biggest cow ever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll send pic. But here is the gas one, boring as it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120511-102647.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120511-102647.jpg\" alt=\"20120511-102647.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>378.2 miles, 15.873 gallons, 23.8 mpg, $57.76. So, why are we headed to the land of gigantism now? We did just go to the Mall of America&#8230; With all of the stores from all of he malls I have ever been to in my life, plus an amusement park (log ride! Ferris wheel! rollercoaster!), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,23,18],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cross-country","tag-gas","tag-mundane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}