{"id":128,"date":"2001-09-10T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-10T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=128"},"modified":"2001-09-10T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-10T15:19:00","slug":"fun-driving-in-birmingham-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Fun driving in Birmingham, Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned before in this space, I love to drive.  I like going places and sometimes not really going anywhere at all.  I enjoy getting lost and then finding where I am again.  And it&#8217;s fun to find stuff that I had no idea was there along the way.  So this is my first in what may become a series of fun places to just take a drive.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, I was driving from a store, and I got to the intersection of I-459 and Grants Mill Road.  I take a left at the Grants Mill Road exit all the time to get to my grandparents&#8217; house.  But I had never gone right and seen what was that way.<\/p>\n<p>My curiosity got the best of me.  So I ventured forth.<\/p>\n<p>If you like twisty, somewhat hilly roads with a lot of scenery, this road is for you.  You can&#8217;t go much faster than 40 miles an hour at any one point because there isn&#8217;t any straight section of road to be found.  But it&#8217;s a lot of fun to drive.  The scenery is mainly wooded; the road at times feels pretty tight because the trees are cut very close to the road.  But in fall, I bet it looks pretty amazing.  I also  found out that it connects with Cahaba Valley Road, which is a pretty neat drive in itself because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookhills.org\">The Church at Brook Hills<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justforfeet.com\">Just For Feet Headquarters<\/a>, and Indian Springs, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re in Birmingham and you just feel like taking a nice drive one day, I recommend the Grants Mill Road\/119 combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned before in this space, I love to drive. I like going places and sometimes not really going anywhere at all. I enjoy getting lost and then finding where I am again. And it&#8217;s fun to find stuff that I had no idea was there along the way. So this is my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}