{"id":48,"date":"2004-10-25T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/25\/rubber-neckers-should-be-decapitated\/"},"modified":"2004-10-25T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T14:05:00","slug":"rubber-neckers-should-be-decapitated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/25\/rubber-neckers-should-be-decapitated\/","title":{"rendered":"rubber-neckers should be decapitated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><rant>So, I&#8217;m headed south on Friday, making my way toward Canton.  We&#8217;re all going along just fine, when suddenly, everyone slams on their brakes.  And I mean slam, none of this &#8220;coasting&#8221; to a stop.  I nearly spilled my soda.<\/p>\n<p>And then it&#8217;s stop and go for about 7 miles.  Mostly stop.<\/p>\n<p>When we finally get up to the reason for the slow down &#8211; I nearly set the dashboard on fire with my swearing.<\/p>\n<p>There was an accident.  On the other side of the road.  All the cars were pulled off to the side.  No one was hurt. <\/p>\n<p>So, since this had nothing to do with our side of the road, why was traffic slowed to a stop?  Rubbernecking.  That great american past-time where we all hope to see someone else&#8217;s misfortune.  And if there&#8217;s a body, so much the better. <\/p>\n<p>Okay, all you sick bastards out there &#8211; find something else to do.  The first fools who slowed down nearly caused a whole slew of accidents behind them.  Pointless, stupid and cruel. <\/p>\n<p><\/rant> There.  I feel a little better.<\/p>\n<p>Back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-109871360142947728?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m headed south on Friday, making my way toward Canton. We&#8217;re all going along just fine, when suddenly, everyone slams on their brakes. And I mean slam, none of this &#8220;coasting&#8221; to a stop. I nearly spilled my soda. And then it&#8217;s stop and go for about 7 miles. Mostly stop. When we finally [&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-48","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\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}