{"id":385,"date":"2006-04-12T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/12\/ada1bd9f-2bb5-44fe-82a1-1359e0485da3\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:17","slug":"ada1bd9f-2bb5-44fe-82a1-1359e0485da3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/ada1bd9f-2bb5-44fe-82a1-1359e0485da3\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Day Of The Momentum Killer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oh sure, going to work is just going to work. Right?<\/p>\n<p>If that was the case, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d go completely insane. I prefer a little dash of sport sprinkled on my daily tedium, so I go faster than I should down the hill to work. That tiny bit of fun was stifled by somebody who may be a celebrity. I don&#8217;t know for sure, but it&#8217;s clear that he was likely watching <a href=\"\/2006\/04\/night-of-momentum-killer-kids-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oook Oook II<\/a> on the in-dash DVD player rather than, you know, DRIVING.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early &#8217;90s <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.prodigy.net\/jforgione\/MVC-054S.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes S 500 coupe<\/a>, black<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>California license plate &#8220;MVP 75&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>USC Alumni license plate frame<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Slower than hell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, anybody know who was piloting that trainwreck? Speculate in the Comments section. Here&#8217;s my first stab at wild speculation: maybe this person was a star at USC, but didn&#8217;t have great grades in other areas, like reading the &#8220;Slower Traffic Use Turnouts&#8221; signs. Or reading wasn&#8217;t a requirement back then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day Of The Momentum Killer Oh sure, going to work is just going to work. Right? If that was the case, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d go completely insane. I prefer a little dash of sport sprinkled on my daily tedium, so I go faster than I should down the hill to work. That tiny bit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/ada1bd9f-2bb5-44fe-82a1-1359e0485da3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}