{"id":443,"date":"2008-02-07T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2012-12-02T22:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T03:46:33","slug":"winter-driving-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Winter Driving Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been said so many times that so many people are just way too aggressive in winter driving conditions. Last night’s storm was particularly nasty: dropping a thick layer of ice on everything, followed by heavy snow. So this article in the London Free Press (I know, I said I’d stop reading it!) about a man caught going 127 km\/h and flashing his high beams at slower traffic<\/a>, and then even after getting his ticket and being warned by police ending up spinning off the road in the slippery conditions. Thankfully, he didn’t take anyone else with him, though from the sounds of it he and his car escaped pretty much unscathed. I think true poetic justice might have required the car to be totalled and him to be found at-fault by his insurance :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been said so many times that so many people are just way too aggressive in winter driving conditions. Last night’s storm was particularly nasty: dropping a thick layer of ice on everything, followed by heavy snow. So this article in the London Free Press (I know, I said I’d stop reading it!) about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}