{"id":325,"date":"2025-01-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/route-66-diner-worth-the-detour\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:30:00","slug":"route-66-diner-worth-the-detour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/route-66-diner-worth-the-detour\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 66 Side Quest. The Diner That Was Worth the Detour."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were not strictly on Route 66\u2014we were on the spirit of it, following a highlighted map and a recommendation from a woman at a fuel stop who said you have to eat at the place with the green awning before you die. Sensible criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The diner had vinyl booths, pie in a glass case, and coffee refilled without asking. I ordered two plates because portion humility is not my brand and split one with the table next to us\u2014full-time travelers who knew every KOA by heart and still got excited about pie.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona tapas crawls taught me food is social when you stand and share. American diners teach the same lesson sitting down with more gravy. I host counter parties at home because of both.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the green awning. Talk to people at fuel stops. The overlooked meal is often the trip&#8217;s spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neon, cherry pie, and the kind of lunch stop RV forums forget to mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}