{"id":10906,"date":"2013-09-15T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2013-09-15T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T14:09:36","slug":"weekend-travels-green-bank-vintage-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/10906","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Travels: Green Bank: Vintage Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Green Bank Saturday, which is home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nrao.edu\/facilities\/gbt\/\">National Radio Astronomy Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was an awesome place to geek out.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing especially struck me, and that was the number of old cars and trucks still in use. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9759289921\/\" title=\"20130914_Green_Bank_122 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3758\/9759289921_dbbb86610d.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130914_Green_Bank_122\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That license plate is new, and expires in 2020. So these are not just junked vehicles that died in place. These are vehicles that are in regular use.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9759299572\/\" title=\"20130914_Green_Bank_105 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2852\/9759299572_2638321fb5.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130914_Green_Bank_105\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9759506855\/\" title=\"20130914_Green_Bank_115 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3747\/9759506855_e747166323.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130914_Green_Bank_115\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9759291902\/\" title=\"20130914_Green_Bank_120 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7311\/9759291902_64a4b31bf7.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130914_Green_Bank_120\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9759288602\/\" title=\"20130914_Green_Bank_123 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3793\/9759288602_e325c6211a.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130914_Green_Bank_123\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/9759502926\/\" title=\"20130914_Green_Bank_102 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5346\/9759502926_205a7f1ae9.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20130914_Green_Bank_102\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone tries to tell you that scientists are &#8220;wasting money&#8221; they are completely full of shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Green Bank Saturday, which is home of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It was an awesome place to geek out. But one thing especially struck me, and that was the number of old cars and trucks still in use. That license plate is new, and expires in 2020. So these are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[22,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-science-health-nature","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2PU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}