{"id":1897,"date":"2021-12-15T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:08:23","slug":"wait-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Wait for it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t make it all the way home on Tuesday. &nbsp;After the men&#8217;s breakfast (great fun) and a good visit with Elaine and Red&nbsp;LeCain, I started south. &nbsp;The rain was getting heavy and the freeway message boards were warning of gusty winds in the Grapevine. &nbsp;I knew the temperature was dropping and that snow would start&nbsp;later in the afternoon but I thought I might get through in time. &nbsp;But just before Interstate 5 starts up the hill,&nbsp;I decided not to risk it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhmcd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3965.jpeg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhmcd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3965.jpeg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhmcd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3965.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found a hotel and spent the night. &nbsp;I&#8217;d packed an extra set of clothes and a book to read just in case, and I was perfectly comfortable. &nbsp;The photo above I took from my hotel as I was working out in the fitness room. &nbsp;You can see the snow was pretty low!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a nice night I had a lovely drive back to Los Angeles Wednesday morning. &nbsp;The road was dry. &nbsp;No wind. &nbsp;If I had continued home Tuesday in the rain I would have missed the beautiful&nbsp;snow covered hills. &nbsp;What a refreshing, inspiring, vision. &nbsp;A gift of beauty &nbsp;for me. &nbsp;A gift of water for our thirsty land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t make it all the way home on Tuesday. &nbsp;After the men&#8217;s breakfast (great fun) and a good visit&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=1897\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wait for it&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-fellowship","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}