{"id":47,"date":"2008-09-21T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:04:16","slug":"pennys-diner-in-morrill-nebraska-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/pennys-diner-in-morrill-nebraska-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny&#8217;s Diner in Morrill, Nebraska, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pennys_diner_neb.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[47]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37\" alt=\"pennys_diner_neb\" src=\"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pennys_diner_neb-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pennys_diner_neb-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pennys_diner_neb-624x413.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pennys_diner_neb.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There I was, &#8216;heads down&#8217; driving from Glacier National Park in Montana thru Morrill Nebraska to points east. In a blink I drove right past this flashy, luminescent, silvery, art-deco looking diner straight out of Americana.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the landscape and scenery had been pretty flat and routine for what seemed a long time along that route, so the diner really jumped out at me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I had to turn around and go back to take a few photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts of the waitress serving me a piece of hot, home made apple pie ran through my mind. With a slice of cheese on it, and a scoop or 2 of vanilla ice cream, I was big time waxing nostalgic for the\u00a0<strong><em>good old days<\/em><\/strong>. But, being in make-time travel mode, I thought my thoughts, shot my shots, and jumped right back on the road again.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, all right, it did take a little bit of the romanticism out of it when I later googled Penny&#8217;s Diner and found out that it is a commercial franchise chain and not a small entrepreneurial throwback.<\/p>\n<p>But hey! I wish now that I HAD gone in for that piece of apple pie&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There I was, &#8216;heads down&#8217; driving from Glacier National Park in Montana thru Morrill Nebraska to points east. In a blink I drove right past this flashy, luminescent, silvery, art-deco looking diner straight out of Americana. Now, the landscape and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/pennys-diner-in-morrill-nebraska-usa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[8,26,25],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-diner","tag-photography","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}