{"id":1497,"date":"2012-04-26T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-04-26T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:50:17","slug":"gotta-get-back-to-the-simple-life-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Gotta get back to the simple life again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1-IMG_1123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1498\" title=\"1-IMG_1123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1-IMG_1123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1-IMG_1123.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1-IMG_1123-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the way out of Kenton, Ohio, en route to Columbus is a &#8220;restored&#8221; Gulf\u00a0 Service station. I&#8217;m pretty sure it didn&#8217;t start off selling &#8220;That Good Gulf Gasoline&#8221;, and in fact, it most likely never sold gasoline at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2-IMG_1128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1499\" title=\"2-IMG_1128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2-IMG_1128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2-IMG_1128.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2-IMG_1128-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still. The colours, the&#8230;the everything. I doubt it was a house (I didn&#8217;t go up and peek in the windows), but whatever it was&#8230; was classy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/3-IMG_1129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1500\" title=\"3-IMG_1129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/3-IMG_1129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/3-IMG_1129.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/3-IMG_1129-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My passion is photography. The passion of others certainly includes restoration of historical artifacts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-IMG_1130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1501\" title=\"4-IMG_1130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-IMG_1130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-IMG_1130.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-IMG_1130-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They even advertised &#8220;Squirt&#8221; soda on the door! LOL.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/ej-sl.mp3]\n<p>Silver Blue, who really DOES miss a lot of the simple life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way out of Kenton, Ohio, en route to Columbus is a &#8220;restored&#8221; Gulf\u00a0 Service station. I&#8217;m pretty sure it didn&#8217;t start off selling &#8220;That Good Gulf Gasoline&#8221;, and in fact, it most likely never sold gasoline at all. Still. The colours, the&#8230;the everything. I doubt it was a house (I didn&#8217;t go up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[539,288,537,360,536,538],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-americana","tag-canon","tag-gulf-station","tag-ohio","tag-rebel-xti","tag-restored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}