{"id":239,"date":"2005-04-29T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-07-20T06:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:45:38","slug":"squinty-whale-ride-to-pfeiffer-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/squinty-whale-ride-to-pfeiffer-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Squinty Whale Ride to Pfeiffer Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m working on my novel today, although just now, as you can see, I&#039;m avoiding writing by screwing around with the Web and my blog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/squintywhale.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I decided Bela&rsquo;s car should be one of those old station wagons with the squinty windows on the sides in the way back.  I found a perfect picture of one, a 1972 Gran Torino Squire.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stationwagon.com\/gallery\/gallery.html\" target=\"_blank\">  Photo by Jeff Cooper. <\/a>  It&rsquo;s a muscle car, no less, which makes it that much likelier that Bela, in his hurry to elude his pursuers, will slide that mofo right off a cliff by Bixy Bridge in Big Sur! (Pick your <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=bixby%20bridge&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;safe=off&#038;rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-21,GGLD:en&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\" target=\"_blank\">own photo.<\/a>)  Not to worry, though, for Rowena the flying cone shell will sucker onto the rooftop and carry him and his companions to Pfeiffer Beach!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#039;s a picture of this cool square natural bridge at Pfeiffer, clearly a door to another world.  Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.karpel.org\/Ron\/ImageWeb\/20031116_05_PfeifferBeach.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.karpel.org\/Ron\/HTMLCC\/20031116_05_PfeifferBeach.html&#038;h=470&#038;w=412&#038;sz=32&#038;tbnid=j6RkK_1B9xkJ:&#038;tbnh=124&#038;tbnw=109&#038;hl=en&#038;start=5&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dpfeiffer%2Bbeach%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2004-21,GGLD:en%26sa%3DG\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Karpel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/pfeiffer.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m working on my novel today, although just now, as you can see, I&#039;m avoiding writing by screwing around with the Web and my blog. I decided Bela&rsquo;s car should be one of those old station wagons with the squinty windows on the sides in the way back. I found a perfect picture of one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}