{"id":2469,"date":"2013-01-01T00:51:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T06:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2013-01-01T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T06:53:07","slug":"the-coffee-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2013\/01\/01\/the-coffee-shack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coffee Shack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highway 11 on the Kona coast is extremely narrow there. The mountain rises up on the one side and drops off steeply on the other side of the two-lane road. Yet just beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeeshack.com\/\">The Coffee Shack<\/a> there was a narrow pull-off on the narrow shoulder where two cares were parked. Evidently this was the overflow lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pull over here,&#8221; Trudy said, pointing to a space in front of the second car &#8212; a narrow triangular space barely long enough and barely wide enough for a car to fit. Perhaps she thought her husband would just whip their rental Jeep over and pull into that tiny spot. Or maybe she thought he&#8217;d back into it.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>His first day of driving that Jeep, and he was going to parallel park along the edge of a precipice 1400 feet up the summit of a volcano with a vertical drop awaiting any tire that strays just a bit to far?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He passed the spot and found a place further down where he could pull off the road on the other side, <em>the\u00a0mountain side<\/em>, of the road. And they walked the quarter mile or so back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeeshack.com\/\">The Coffee Shack<\/a> and ate sandwiches and drank Kona coffee as the gazed out the windows down the steep slopes of the mountain out toward the ocean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_7872.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7872\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_7877.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 7877\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway 11 on the Kona coast is extremely narrow there. The mountain rises up on the one side and drops off steeply on the other side of the two-lane road. Yet just beyond The Coffee Shack there was a narrow pull-off on the narrow shoulder where two cares were parked. Evidently this was the overflow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}