{"id":57781,"date":"2020-08-04T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57781"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:48:00","slug":"57781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57781","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hemmings.com\/stories\/2020\/07\/29\/pontiac-trans-am-mike-musto-road-trip\">The long way home: a 2,000-mile road trip in an untested \u201979 Pontiac Trans Am<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hmn.com\/fit-in\/900x506\/filters:upscale()\/stories\/2020\/07\/24140943\/DSC_0250-e1595614289627.jpg\" alt=\"All photos by Mike Musto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Great American Road Trip is a wonderful thing. It allows you to meet people you\u2019d never otherwise encounter, see things you\u2019d never otherwise see, and experience this great country of ours in ways that only open-road travel can provide.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s new cars are forgettable. They\u2019re roving jellybeans connected to the world via technology that most owners will never understand. They\u2019re tracked by all manner of computer, recording our every moment and location. In short, new vehicles remove the one thing that the automobile was meant to provide from its inception: Freedom. Some will say it\u2019s foolish to run 2,000 miles in an untested classic, but I disagree. In my mind, it\u2019s about the adventure of doing something few are willing to attempt and getting lost in a vehicle that can\u2019t be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long way home: a 2,000-mile road trip in an untested \u201979 Pontiac Trans Am The Great American Road Trip is a wonderful thing. It allows you to meet people you\u2019d never otherwise encounter, see things you\u2019d never otherwise see, and experience this great country of ours in ways that only open-road travel can provide. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57782,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57781\/revisions\/57782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}