{"id":396,"date":"2004-07-29T02:04:47","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2004-07-29T02:04:47","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T02:04:47","slug":"tin_can_tourists_or_life_on_the_road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Tin Can Tourists or life on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconnection.org\/shows\/2004\/07\/20040728_b_main.asp\">Dick Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Jack Kerouac wrote: &#8220;Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.&#8221;<br \/>\nHis words are the creed of the RV set also known as Tin Can Tourists, Gypsies and Escapees. These ramblers whittle their lives down to the bare necessities, have a yard sale, sell the house, grab the kids, stuff themselves into a thirty foot home on wheels and hit the road.<br \/>\nSome move on every three days, some stay a month or more and work, some home-school the kids parked beside the Grand Canyon. Once they&#8217;ve tasted life like this, they don&#8217;t want it any other way<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Gordon: Jack Kerouac wrote: &#8220;Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.&#8221; His words are the creed of the RV set also known as Tin Can Tourists, Gypsies and Escapees. These ramblers whittle their lives down to the bare necessities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}