{"id":2427,"date":"2010-10-12T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/my_flirtation_w\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:50:46","slug":"my_flirtation_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/10\/my_flirtation_w\/","title":{"rendered":"My Flirtation With Road Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good thing I keep an even keel, or I could have gotten into a road rage incident last evening on the way back from a ride at Vestal.<br \/>\nI was entering <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=&#038;hnear=Knoxville,+Tennessee+37919&#038;ll=35.927703,-83.931255&#038;spn=0.017862,0.043945&#038;z=15\">this Edington Road one-lane underpass<\/a> (Google Street Views), already in the one lane part, and this white, trashy-looking 20-something-year-old a-hole comes comes in the other side. So someone has got to back up. I thought I should have the right-of-way, since I was there first. But there are no signs, and, not being too familiar with the local driving customs, I decide to back up since there is a small pull-off on my side of the bridge.<br \/>\nSo I start to back up, slowly, because I&#8217;m not a great backer-upper and because I don&#8217;t want to bang my bike or car on the low bridge.<br \/>\nWell, that wasn&#8217;t enough for Mr. Eminem-wannabe. He revs up his big Cadillac, starts flashing his lights, honking, and yelling obscenities the <em>entire<\/em> time I&#8217;m backing up. I thought about stopping just to further annoy him, but who knows what kind of dangerous response that would have triggered?<br \/>\nWhat a freakin&#8217; idiot.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s bad enough confronting such clowns when you&#8217;re in a car.  It&#8217;s all the worse for me when I think about how I&#8217;m sharing the road with these hotheads on my bicycle.  Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/10\/my_flirtation_w\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to My Flirtation With Road Rage\"><p>It&#8217;s a good thing I keep an even keel, or I could have gotten into a road rage incident last evening on the way back from a ride at Vestal. I was entering this Edington Road one-lane underpass (Google Street Views), already in the one lane part, and this white, trashy-looking 20-something-year-old a-hole comes comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}