{"id":12738,"date":"2009-11-12T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2011-11-24T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T03:45:27","slug":"driving-through-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12738","title":{"rendered":"Driving Through Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12639\">From my Sunday road trip<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6fNH9m0zv5I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nD. emails: Don&#8217;t talk about your dad, mate! Listen up and listen good, Sunny Jim. You may think you&#8217;ve analyzed your dear old dad, but I&#8217;m here to tell you that, like everything else in your bloody life, you&#8217;re well off the fair-dinkum rails. This might play with that mentally disturbed woman with whom you&#8217;re driving, but let me tell you both that, as a son, you&#8217;re a fair-dinkum disappointment. A bloody sinker! I would have straightened you out right quick if it hadn&#8217;t been for your stepmum. My impulse was always to stake you to a termite mound, shove a cane toad in your gob, and then give you a fair-dinkum wallop in the chin with a cricket bat. Perhaps if I had done that, you wouldn&#8217;t have turned out to be the mewling, self-pitying, goldbricking fraud that you so obviously are. One of these days, I&#8217;ll dig out your lungs with a fair-dinkum garden trowel, mate. Don&#8217;t think I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my Sunday road trip: D. emails: Don&#8217;t talk about your dad, mate! Listen up and listen good, Sunny Jim. 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