{"id":780,"date":"2006-02-13T23:17:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2006-02-14T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T07:35:14","slug":"collecting-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Collecting things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to work today I noticed something very odd. When I accelerated, the car pulled to the left. When I took my foot off the accelerator, the car pulled to the right. If I had any sense, I would have pulled off the road, but this was on the second-half of my trip to work, the part where I&#8217;m in the middle of nowhere and you can&#8217;t get off the freeway. When I got to work I noticed that my tire was low. I used AAA for the first time since I started paying for it in 1992, and a tow truck came to give me some air. They also found a screw in my tire, so I drove immediately to the tire store to get it fixed. Who wants to be trapped at work? There really isn&#8217;t too much more to the story besides coming back to work and finding NO parking spots. I would have gone home, but my stuff was still inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to work today I noticed something very odd. When I accelerated, the car pulled to the left. When I took my foot off the accelerator, the car pulled to the right. If I had any sense, I would have pulled off the road, but this was on the second-half of my trip to work, the part where I&#8217;m in the middle of nowhere and you can&#8217;t get off the freeway. When I got to work I noticed that my tire was low. I used AAA for the first time since I started paying for it in 1992, and a tow truck came to give me some air. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collecting things.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","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\/780","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}