{"id":6917,"date":"2018-08-20T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2018-08-20T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:31:09","slug":"just-another-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6917","title":{"rendered":"Just Another Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was commuting into work today, 33 to 30 to I-69 to 14. About 6am as usual on I-69 between 30 and 14.  I&#8217;m cruising along in the right lane, driving the speed limit, listening to them play the Star Spangled Banner on 101.7 FM.<\/p>\n<p>There was a semi in the center lane beside me, pulling away <a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a>, but crowding the lane marker between us.  And just like that it started coming over hard towards me, no turn signal or anything.  <\/p>\n<p>I was close to the westbound 14 exit so I yanked my Ranger to the right. The Ranger swerved sickeningly but held on and I shot down the exit at 65 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Whoa!  I went west on 14, u-turned, and went back to my happy little office like nothing at all had happened.<\/p>\n<p>And nothing had, it was just another day.<\/p>\n<p>And it was just another reminder that it can all be gone, just like that, on just another day.<\/p>\n<p>Love the ones you&#8217;re with, today.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px; padding-top:10px; border-top: 1px solid grey;\"><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"#1\">1. <\/a>Of course it was pulling away from me.  I was driving the speed limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was commuting into work today, 33 to 30 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}