{"id":1496,"date":"2002-07-28T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2002-07-28T23:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:02:26","slug":"julias-muffler-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Julia&#8217;s Muffler Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia spotted this big guy along side I-69\u00a0outside Muncie, Indiana. It was early in the morning and I was surprised that she was awake. We stopped on our way home from the Davidson cottage in Michigan to grab this image.\u00a0 MacAllister Rental at Exit 41 has this guy watching the traffic go by. Muncie, by the way, is the home of Ball State University. <em>Update: I&#8217;ve driven by many times and he is well cared for, with new paint and moved closed to the storage building.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1497\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" data-attachment-id=\"1497\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=1497\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?fit=686%2C1048\" data-orig-size=\"686,1048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DC210 Zoom (V03.20)&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0055555555555556&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Julia&#8217;s Muffler Man\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;02muffman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Julia&#8217;s Muffler Man&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?fit=145%2C222\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?fit=494%2C755\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1497\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?resize=196%2C300\" alt=\"muffman\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?resize=196%2C300 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?resize=670%2C1024 670w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?resize=98%2C150 98w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02muffman.jpg?w=686 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia&#8217;s Muffler Man<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia spotted this big guy along side I-69\u00a0outside Muncie, Indiana. It was early in the morning and I was surprised that she was awake. We stopped on our way home from the Davidson cottage in Michigan to grab this image.\u00a0 MacAllister Rental at Exit 41 has this guy watching the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1496\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-o8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}