{"id":74183,"date":"2020-05-20T07:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74183"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:04:53","slug":"the-good-news-americans-have-learned-a-lot-about-dealing-with-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74183","title":{"rendered":"The Good News: Americans Have Learned A Lot About Dealing With Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

The bad news: they learned it by watching The Walking Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve noticed a serious uptick in incredibly <\/em>dangerous, reckless driving since the onset of the epidemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, out on I94 between the Cities is one thing. But this includes a lot of episodes on Saint Paul’s narrow side streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worst example? I was driving down Phalen Parkway, out toward the East Side a few weeks ago. Not long after I passed Olive street, moving about 40MPH, I saw a car way behind me, moving very <\/em>fast, swerving between the oncoming and right lanes, doing at least 90mph (in a 40mph zone). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse yet, I saw a concrete median, and cars in the oncoming lane, Speed Racer was going to have to squeeze into the right lane, along with me, before we got to the median. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of me thought “just carry on, and let the moron either jam on the binders or smack into the median – before I remembered that “me and my new-ish used car” were also a viable option. I pulled over – and the moron (a twenty-something of Vibrant descent) swerved into the lane with probably ten feet to spare, jamming on the gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I followed him, hoping to get a license or at least be around to call in the crash report, but he swerved onto Frank Street, narrowly missing an oncoming car, and gunned it up the hill into the neighborhood. I lost him. I have to hope he didn’t kill anyone – yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’d been wondering when we’d start seeing stories like these<\/a> all over the place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bad news: they learned it by watching The Walking Dead. I’ve noticed a serious uptick in incredibly dangerous, reckless driving since the onset of the epidemic. Now, out on I94 between the Cities is one thing. But this includes a lot of episodes on Saint Paul’s narrow side streets. Worst example? I was driving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,104,44],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-stupid","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74184,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions\/74184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}