{"id":46,"date":"2009-12-08T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:30:29","slug":"srsly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Srsly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snow, people. It happens every fucking year in Northern Illinois. How do you ignorant fucks forget how to drive in it, EVERY FUCKING YEAR!@#<\/p>\n<p>Here are my winter driving tips for those of you who have also forgotten how to drive in a quarter inch of snow:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Know what your car can do.<\/strong> This is probably the most important rule of driving, whether it&#8217;s winter or not. Inevitably, I will get passed on the highway by someone in an SUV with four-wheel drive. Also inevitably, I will see an SUV with four-wheel drive in the ditch at least once on my commute (yesterday there were five of them). Just because your vehicle has four-wheel drive or &#8220;traction control,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t meet the vehicle manufacturer has given you <em>carte blanche<\/em> to drive like a jackass.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pay attention.<\/strong> This seems like a no-brainer, but plenty of people have no brains. If you&#8217;re holding your cell phone up to your head, putting on make-up or, heaven help me, <strong>reading the goddamned newspaper<\/strong> while you&#8217;re driving, what you&#8217;re really doing is driving while you do one of those things. People that do this shit are lucky that I want to live to see my daughter grow up. Otherwise, I&#8217;ve half a mind to immediately prepare for ramming speed. I think Jim Morrison said it best: &#8220;Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slow down.<\/strong> Look, I like to drive fast too, but if there&#8217;s snow on the ground, you need to slow down. I&#8217;m not saying you need to do 35 on the interstate, but at least tick it down 5 mph. There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than seeing some douchebag flying down the road only to cause problems later. Think of someone other than yourself for a moment, you dumb prick.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&gt;end rant&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snow, people. It happens every fucking year in Northern Illinois. How do you ignorant fucks forget how to drive in it, EVERY FUCKING YEAR!@# Here are my winter driving tips for those of you who have also forgotten how to drive in a quarter inch of snow: Know what your car can do. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sgg9VX-srsly","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}