{"id":2897,"date":"2011-07-21T21:33:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T01:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2013-07-26T01:57:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T05:57:26","slug":"lo-que-pasa-en-el-d-f-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/21\/lo-que-pasa-en-el-d-f-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lo Que Pasa en el D.F., Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

One evening, Juan Pablo invited me out to los\u00a0jalones<\/em>. I checked my Spanish-English dictionary and couldn’t find it, so I asked him what they were. He explained a little bit, and I figured it out, “Ah, Nascar.”<\/p>\n

We jumped in his Beetle—and when I say “his”, I mean “belonging to whichever customer he was conning”—and drove down Perif\u00e9rico, Mexico City’s beltline, to… somewhere, I wasn’t sure. We pulled off on a side street and looked for a place to park. I glanced around for the stadium. Not there. Then I noticed about three dozen cars and maybe 15 motorcycles all just sitting around us. One of the motorcyclists took off down the empty strip of pavement and popped a wheelie.<\/p>\n

That’s when I realized my ne’er-do-well suitor and I would not be cheering from the stands while\u00a0Riccardo Petty drove his n\u00famero cuarenta y tres<\/em> car around a ring.\u00a0We would be watching drag races.<\/p>\n

Well, OK. I mean, not OK, but whatever, fine. I’ll watch some idiots burn down a surface street in hopes of winning a little cash or at least being considered the dude with the biggest dick. When Juan Pablo suggested I take a ride on the back of a motorcycle with his buddy, though, I declined.<\/p>\n

People milled around. Guys revved their engines. Girls, midriffs bared, preened. Juan Pablo chatted with his cuates<\/em>. I just leaned against the car, waiting for something to happen. Two cars finally lined up at an arbitrary spot and seemed to be gearing up. I stood on Juan Pablo’s bumper to get a better look.<\/p>\n

That’s the moment when la polic\u00eda<\/em> came blazing down on the group.<\/p>\n

Juan Pablo yelled, “Get in the car!” I was still pulling out my seat belt when he jerked the wheel over. The whole peloton veered back onto Perifer\u00edco and hauled ass. I cursed Juan Pablo loudly and peered in my passenger’s side mirror, wondering how many officers I was going to have to bribe to keep myself out of jail. I pictured myself, awash in tears, emptying the Banco Santander ATM with a line of cops behind me, palms extended. And that was the best<\/em>-case scenario.<\/p>\n

[Continuar\u00e1<\/a>…<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One evening, Juan Pablo invited me out to los\u00a0jalones. I checked my Spanish-English dictionary and couldn’t find it, so I asked him what they were. He explained a little bit, and I figured it out, “Ah, Nascar.” We jumped in his Beetle—and when I say “his”, I mean “belonging to whichever customer he was conning”—and … Continue reading Lo Que Pasa en el D.F., Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}