{"id":281,"date":"2011-03-22T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T02:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-03-22T22:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T02:12:49","slug":"driving-into-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Driving into St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, March 16, we left Louisville.  Me and my sisters were sitting at the table in the RV on our way into St. Louis.  We were playing a game of Tripoly when Dad said, &#8220;Girls, in about 15 minutes, I am going to say, &#8216;Come up here,&#8217; and I want you to come sit on the couch and buckle up.&#8221;  About 15 minutes later, Dad said, &#8220;Okay, come up here now!&#8221;  I rushed up and grabbed the front seat on the couch because I guessed it was a very important thing.  Then Dad pointed out the window and said, &#8220;Do you notice anything different about this city?&#8221;  I looked out the front window and said, &#8220;Well, there is a big curvy thing over that building!&#8221;  I was joking around because I didn&#8217;t actually think that was what he was talking about.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stlouis_gateway.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stlouis_gateway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stlouis_gateway.jpg 550w, https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stlouis_gateway-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking across the Mississippi River at the Arch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then Dad said, &#8220;Remember in The Lightning Thief when Percy was up in the Arch in St. Louis with the thingamagig monster and there was a big hole blown in it and Percy jumped out into the water and met the water-angel-thingies for the first time?&#8221;  I raised my eyebrow and looked at him weirdly.  But I said, &#8220;Yes, I remember.  That&#8217;s so cool!&#8221;  I thought it was really fascinating and a couple days later I felt like Percy when I went in it!  But that is another story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, March 16, we left Louisville. Me and my sisters were sitting at the table in the RV on our way into St. Louis. We were playing a game of Tripoly when Dad said, &#8220;Girls, in about 15 minutes, I am going to say, &#8216;Come up here,&#8217; and I want you to come sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[20,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheels4girls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}