{"id":321,"date":"2007-12-29T22:26:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-12-29T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:26:45","slug":"so-there-i-was-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"So, there I was &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost lying on my back. I went to a party the Saturday before Christmas. The party was in Evergreen, and the hosts had a steep, ice-covered driveway. I got partway up it and my front wheels started slipping. I put on the emergency brake, downshifted into first, then let out the clutch while I put on the gas and released the emergency brake.<\/p>\n<p>I slid backwards and into the ditch.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2007\/12\/upsy-daisy.jpg' title='Upsy-daisy!'><img src='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2007\/12\/upsy-daisy.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Upsy-daisy!' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we got to the door, I asked Joe if he knew a good towing company, because I&#8217;d put my car into the ditch. He thought I was joking with him, because when they moved in, their U-Haul had ended up in the same ditch. Luckily, we got a very competent tow-truck driver who pulled the car out safely and expeditiously. We commented on his competence, and he replied that they&#8217;d had about 70 calls for just this sort of thing in the prior four days.<\/p>\n<p>We had a good time at the party, though. I&#8217;m glad we went, even if I&#8217;m embarrassed about what happened getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost lying on my back. I went to a party the Saturday before Christmas. The party was in Evergreen, and the hosts had a steep, ice-covered driveway. I got partway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-its-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}