{"id":106,"date":"2009-09-15T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-09-15T18:11:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:11:34","slug":"as-a-driver-im-far-from-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090915-106.htm","title":{"rendered":"As a driver, I&#8217;m far from perfect."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody makes mistakes while driving.  Everybody does dumb things&#8211; sometimes by accident, sometimes by design.<\/p>\n<p>But when you decide to run a red light and almost hit the person across from you who&#8217;s clearing the lane?  Don&#8217;t you dare honk at them.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just officially gone from dumb to idiot.<\/p>\n<p><i>I often choose to not get riled over traffic issues&#8211;getting cut off, having someone in front of me who&#8217;s not paying attention to the road, whatever&#8211;by reminding myself that I&#8217;ve unintentionally done the same thing.  And by reminding myself of how embarrassed and remorseful I am when I&#8217;ve done such a thing&#8211;I just wish I could tell the driver I cut off how sorry I am.  It serves me well to assume the best of the drivers around me.  I stay calm, my blood pressure stays low.  All is well.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But when someone disobeys the law and then has the audacity to get upset at the ones they could have killed in their recklessness?  There&#8217;s no excuse for that kind of behavior.<\/i>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody makes mistakes while driving. Everybody does dumb things&#8211; sometimes by accident, sometimes by design. But when you decide to run a red light and almost hit the person across from you who&#8217;s clearing the lane? Don&#8217;t you dare honk at them. You&#8217;ve just officially gone from dumb to idiot. I often choose to not &#8230; <a title=\"As a driver, I&#8217;m far from perfect.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090915-106.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As a driver, I&#8217;m far from perfect.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}