{"id":95957,"date":"2015-02-20T05:35:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=95957"},"modified":"2015-02-20T05:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T10:37:02","slug":"boys-with-pipes-and-goggles-on-a-road-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=95957","title":{"rendered":"Boys with Pipes and Goggles, On a Road Somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n.jpg\" alt=\"16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"593\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n-100x62.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n-200x124.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16181_10153056819742299_6272988251811258270_n-400x247.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My grandfather, Anthony Vincent O&#8217;Malley, on a road trip to Canada with his buddies, 1920. He&#8217;s the greaser on the far right. <\/p>\n<p>LOOK at those gorgeous goofballs.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother referred to this road trip as &#8220;the infamous trip to Canada&#8221; and many adventures were had, involving jalopies breaking down on dusty roads, meeting a group of random &#8220;dancing girls&#8221; (there are photos), and mock ballet posing for the camera, complete with pipes and motorcycle goggles. <\/p>\n<p>I could look at this photo all day. Look at the guy third from the left, with the goggles and the pipe. He cracks me up. <\/p>\n<p>My grandfather (we called him &#8220;Pop&#8221;) died when I was a kid, and he was very sick for the entire time I knew him. I first saw these photos when I was a teenager and was enraptured by them (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=152\" target=\"blank\">I wrote a whole diary entry about them<\/a>), because I felt like it gave me a view of my grandfather that was fresh and new, and my understanding of life and time expanded. <\/p>\n<p>I still could look at this photo all day. Pop was hot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather, Anthony Vincent O&#8217;Malley, on a road trip to Canada with his buddies, 1920. He&#8217;s the greaser on the far right. LOOK at those gorgeous goofballs. My grandmother referred to this road trip as &#8220;the infamous trip to Canada&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=95957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95960,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95957\/revisions\/95960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}