{"id":476,"date":"2008-07-02T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/tires-cookie\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T14:23:00","slug":"tires-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/tires-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"tires, cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, on the drive to work, a truck hauling a backhoe in a cart passed me on the left.   Unfortunately, the back right tire of the cart wasn&#8217;t up to the challenge and was disintegrating.  Chunks of the tire were coming off and flipping up onto the road in front of me.   I slowed down and he started to get over in front of me, then managed to get all the way off the road.   There was no damage to my car, but I did have the stink of burning tires with me for a few miles.<\/p>\n<p>I frequently get food at the Asian restaurant area of the student union &#8211; and when I do, I get a fortune cookie.   I like these little auguries and don&#8217;t read them until I&#8217;m done with my lunch and have eaten the cookie.  In the past, I&#8217;ve gotten encouraging ones like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will have a long and healthy life&#8221;  or<br \/>&#8220;Obstacles can&#8217;t hold you back&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s cookie, however, had this message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not be afraid of computers.  Be afraid of the lack of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ummm&#8230; great?   What the heck does that mean?   I mean, I like computers and I&#8217;m not afraid of them &#8211; though I&#8217;ve seen The Terminator too many times to really trust them. <\/p>\n<p>But for a fortune cookie?   Weird.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I&#8217;m going to have to post all my fortunes &#8211; maybe on my web site.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now&#8230; later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-4327321899815022925?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, on the drive to work, a truck hauling a backhoe in a cart passed me on the left. Unfortunately, the back right tire of the cart wasn&#8217;t up to the challenge and was disintegrating. Chunks of the tire were coming off and flipping up onto the road in front of me. I slowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}