{"id":278,"date":"2007-05-24T00:23:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T05:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-05-24T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T05:26:03","slug":"i-love-laportelaporte-mn-that-is-huh-leo-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"I Love Laporte&#8230;..Laporte, MN that is.  Huh?  Leo who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/gallery\/laporte\/\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=75% title=\"Welcome to Laporte, MN\" alt=\"Welcome to Laporte, MN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/albums\/laporte\/DSC_0143.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have been living under a rock, you might not know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leoville.com\">Leo Laporte<\/a> is the head of the very popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\">TWiT<\/a> podcast network.  TWiT has a bunch of podcasts that I enjoy listening to, including the flagship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/TWiT\">This Week in Tech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/DGW\">The Daily Gizwiz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/MBW\">MacBreak Weekly<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/SN\">Security Now<\/a>, to name a few.<br \/>\nWhy am I bringing this up now?  Simple.  I was driving home from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=Warroad,+MN&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=47.353711,-93.186035&#038;spn=8.873497,24.082031&#038;z=6&#038;iwloc=addr&#038;om=1\">Warroad, MN<\/a> today (yeah &#8212; that&#8217;s about a 7.5 hour drive for those of you playing at home) and ended up going through the little town of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=Laporte,+MN&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;om=1&#038;ll=47.219568,-94.746094&#038;spn=8.895939,24.082031&#038;z=6&#038;iwloc=addr\">Laporte, MN<\/a>.  I actually had my new camera with me, so I couldn&#8217;t resist snapping a few photos.  I sent an email to Leo along with a link to the photos. I know he gets absolutely flooded with emails, so I&#8217;m not expecting him to respond to the email, but it would be kinda cool.<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you been through Laporte, MN?  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been living under a rock, you might not know that Leo Laporte is the head of the very popular TWiT podcast network. TWiT has a bunch of podcasts that I enjoy listening to, including the flagship This Week in Tech, The Daily Gizwiz, MacBreak Weekly, and Security Now, to name a few. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}