{"id":17765,"date":"2016-11-01T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2016-11-01T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:51:15","slug":"we-discovered-service-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17765","title":{"rendered":"We discovered service with a smile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16820\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"retirement.pic_\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_-672x372.jpg 672w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retirement.pic_.jpg 1397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LUSK, Wyo.<\/strong> &#8212; I could get used to the service we&#8217;ve gotten at a one-woman\u00a0business that passes for an RV park in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>We hauled our fifth wheel from Piedmont, S.D., through some incredibly picturesque country in western South Dakota, including the town of Deadwood, which if you haven&#8217;t seen it, you need to cast your gaze on\u00a0the charming\u00a0community tucked in the middle of the Black Hills.<\/p>\n<p>We came out of the forestland and headed onto the prairie.<\/p>\n<p>Then we arrived in Lusk, looking for an RV park we had located in our directory of RV campsites. We found it.<\/p>\n<p>We were greeted by a woman named Linda, who waved us onto her lot. She guided us to our full-hookup site, helped us hook up our water, helped with our sewer line hookup.<\/p>\n<p>Linda even provided us with a new washer we could use to prevent leakage from our water outlet on the side of the fifth wheel.<\/p>\n<p>All the while, this charming business owner was cracking jokes, quips and one-liners. We laughed out loud with her.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t expect this kind of welcome wherever we go. But in this\u00a0the owner of this business\u00a0in the middle of the Wyoming plains made us glad we found it &#8212; <em>and Linda<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. LUSK, Wyo. &#8212; I could get used to the service we&#8217;ve gotten at a one-woman\u00a0business that passes for an RV park in the middle of nowhere. We hauled our fifth wheel from Piedmont, S.D., through some incredibly picturesque country in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We discovered service with a smile<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3920,5831],"class_list":["post-17765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-retirement","tag-rvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17769,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions\/17769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}