{"id":946,"date":"2009-04-03T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/2009-4-3-jaunty-dumptruck-onews-critter-alert-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:12","slug":"2009-4-3-jaunty-dumptruck-onews-critter-alert-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/2009-4-3-jaunty-dumptruck-onews-critter-alert-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217;News! &#8211; Critter Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t normally post something like this because the underlying story is fairly sad, but you can&#8217;t ignore the craft displayed by master Press-Enterprise wordsmith Richard Brooks <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pe.com\/news\/digest\/2009\/04\/dead-horse-delays-traffic-in-l.html\" target=\"_blank\">in this case<\/a>. Behold:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>A dead horse is creating a traffic hazard along 58th Avenue just east of La Quinta, according to the California Highway Patrol website.<\/p>\n<p>The carcass was reported at 5:18 a.m. in the westbound lanes at Jackson Street and was still in the roadway at 6:14 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>There was no word on what caused the <b>critter&#8217;s<\/b> death.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just keep the quality high, and the readers will come. The cream floats to the top, you know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I wouldn&#8217;t normally post something like this because the underlying story is fairly sad, but you can&#8217;t ignore the craft displayed by master Press-Enterprise wordsmith Richard Brooks in this case. Behold: A dead horse is creating a traffic hazard along 58th Avenue just east of La Quinta, according to the California Highway Patrol website. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/2009-4-3-jaunty-dumptruck-onews-critter-alert-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217;News! &#8211; Critter Alert!&#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":[33],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}