{"id":5280,"date":"2012-03-15T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T05:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2012-03-15T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T05:41:59","slug":"traffic-sux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5280","title":{"rendered":"Traffic sux."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My commute to and from work takes about 25 minutes without traffic and some bending of the speed limit. And, as you&#8217;d expect, I&#8217;m not even keeping up with the fastest traffic. My midlife crisis car still doesn&#8217;t get the mileage you&#8217;d think it should (it&#8217;s a frigging Prius, after all) but the sound system has quite a lot of bass punch to it. I was driving 3MPH and trying to stay sane so I had my iPhone playing my usual shuffle, fast-forwarding past the non-dance music. I had a Justin Timberlake remix playing so loud that the rear-view mirror was vibrating and I couldn&#8217;t clearly see the guy right behind me. Fuzzy or not, I could tell how far he was so it wasn&#8217;t that dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71VUdPxMOxQ&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71VUdPxMOxQ&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out there must have been quite an accident because it looked like there was flame-retardant foam all over the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I admitted to playing Justin Timberlake at a loud volume in my car, sort of on purpose. And it was a dance remix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My commute to and from work takes about 25 minutes without traffic and some bending of the speed limit. And, as you&#8217;d expect, I&#8217;m not even keeping up with the fastest traffic. My midlife crisis car still doesn&#8217;t get the mileage you&#8217;d think it should (it&#8217;s a frigging Prius, after all) but the sound system has quite a lot of bass punch to it. I was driving 3MPH and trying to stay sane so I had my iPhone playing my usual shuffle, fast-forwarding past the non-dance music. I had a Justin Timberlake remix playing so loud that the rear-view mirror was vibrating and I couldn&#8217;t clearly see the guy right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traffic sux.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}