{"id":2788,"date":"2010-10-20T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:07:13","slug":"up_north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2788","title":{"rendered":"Up North"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t venture outside the Twin Cities very often, so today’s road trip up to Brainerd<\/a> for a work event was something of a novelty for me. I think I passed more trees and fields in one day than I have in the past couple years of commuting. I’m a city kid at heart, but I can understand the appeal of rural living: the abundance of open space, the slower pace of life, the lower price of almost everything, the intimate familiarity with neighbors. I could probably even learn to tolerate the plethora of Michelle Bachmann lawn signs that litter the landscape. But I would soon miss the conveniences and amenities of my urban existence: art house movie theaters, comic book shops, skyways, and underground parking. <\/p>\n

These infrequent day trips are great for appreciating greater Minnesota, but they also remind that home is waiting for me. <\/p>\n

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I don’t venture outside the Twin Cities very often, so today’s road trip up to Brainerd for a work event was something of a novelty for me. I think I passed more trees and fields in one day than I have in the past couple years of commuting. I’m a city kid at heart, but […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-up_north","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}