{"id":143,"date":"2008-09-28T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-09-28T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:16:34","slug":"rally-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Rally Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made it! <\/p>\n<p>Hot, tired, sunburned, and happy, well sort of.. <\/p>\n<p>We pulled into Birmingham for the finish and a cold drink. We were awarded the highly sought after &#8220;Iron Butt Award&#8221; due to the length of the drive from Houston. Helen says it&#8217;s actually the &#8220;buns of steel&#8221; award.<\/p>\n<p>Due to our scheduled VERY early departure we opted not to impose on the Greenwoods and grabbed a hotel room. They were so very generous in offering their home but after all they&#8217;ve done for us we just couldn&#8217;t. You won&#8217;t find kinder people anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly we had to say goodbye to some people who touched our hearts. There were sad smiles that only people who&#8217;s lives have been impacted can have. A tear or 2 was shed, promises of a future meet made, and one last pat on the back.<br \/>\n(sigh)<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow from the road home&#8230;.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/l-640-480-7c429d24-680b-4f21-b296-0ee75c0f98df.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/l-640-480-7c429d24-680b-4f21-b296-0ee75c0f98df.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/l-640-480-5f783913-4d59-4771-b687-436db8f557b2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/l-640-480-5f783913-4d59-4771-b687-436db8f557b2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made it! Hot, tired, sunburned, and happy, well sort of.. We pulled into Birmingham for the finish and a cold drink. We were awarded the highly sought after &#8220;Iron Butt Award&#8221; due to the length of the drive from Houston. Helen says it&#8217;s actually the &#8220;buns of steel&#8221; award. Due to our scheduled VERY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveorhelen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}