{"id":414,"date":"2004-01-02T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T21:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/covering_local_news\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T21:09:45","slug":"covering_local_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/covering_local_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing we have local news outlets here in Knoxville, so we don&#8217;t have to depend on wire services to tell us what&#8217;s happening locally.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_2547692,00.html\">Oh wait<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six die in head-on I-75 crash<br \/>\nBy Associated Press<br \/>\nJanuary 2, 2004<br \/>\nA Tennessee man driving the wrong way on Interstate 75 collided head-on early today with a Michigan-registered car carrying five people. Authorities said all six died.<br \/>\nThe accident happened about 12:15 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the interstate about 15 miles east of Knoxville near Lenoir City.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lenoir City is southwest of Knoxville, not east of it.  But I&#8217;m sure most <i>KnoxNews<\/i> readers wouldn&#8217;t know the difference anyway, right?<br \/>\nUPDATE: Finally a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_2549541,00.html\"><i>KNS<\/i> story<\/a>.  A vacationing family of five was killed by a driver who may have been intoxicated.  What a horrible sight.<br \/>\nANOTHER UPDATE:  What&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tennessean.com\/local\/archives\/04\/01\/45040692.shtml?Element_ID=45040692\">going on around here<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 11 people have died in wrong-way crashes in East Tennessee in recent weeks, including two on New Year&#8217;s Eve in Knoxville, officials say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/covering_local_news\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Covering Local News\"><p>Good thing we have local news outlets here in Knoxville, so we don&#8217;t have to depend on wire services to tell us what&#8217;s happening locally. Oh wait: Six die in head-on I-75 crash By Associated Press January 2, 2004 A Tennessee man driving the wrong way on Interstate 75 collided head-on early today with a [&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-414","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\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}