{"id":3899,"date":"2015-12-31T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2022-07-03T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:07:08","slug":"new-home-we-bought-a-fifth-wheel-for-more-room-and-easier-towinghitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=3899","title":{"rendered":"New home &#8211; we bought a fifth wheel for more room and easier towing\/hitching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While staying in one place for several months, we had the opportunity to visit an RV dealership, and while browsing through the travel trailers and fifth wheels &#8220;just for the fun of it&#8221; we entered one that I just fell in love with immediately!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fifth-wheel with 3 slideouts which gives us WAY more room!\u00a0 We thought hard about the expense for a couple of months, but then decided to purchase it and trade in our travel trailer that had been our home for over 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>We LOVE IT!\u00a0 More room, more storage, and some features that will be great when we&#8217;re travelling &#8211; 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It&#8217;s a fifth-wheel with 3 slideouts which gives us WAY more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=3899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New home &#8211; we bought a fifth wheel for more room and easier towing\/hitching!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-87-not-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6907,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/6907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}