{"id":300,"date":"2008-01-11T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/hit-by-a-bus\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:21:15","slug":"hit-by-a-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/hit-by-a-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit By A Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that whenever someone jokingly anticipates something horrible happening to them thus resulting in the loss of the knowledge they carry in their head they say, &#8220;In case I get hit by a bus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, buses do hit and kill people, but I think cars do much more often. I am nearly hit by a car two or three times every week &#8212; usually when someone is making a right turn on a red light and not paying attention to people walking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering aloud, but is this part of some conspiracy against public transportation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that whenever someone jokingly anticipates something horrible happening to them thus resulting in the loss of the knowledge they carry in their head they say, &#8220;In case I get hit by a bus.&#8221; Yes, buses do hit and kill people, but I think cars do much more often. I am nearly hit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/hit-by-a-bus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hit By A Bus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}