{"id":1003,"date":"2009-02-19T19:14:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2009-02-19T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:18:05","slug":"people-who-think-that-they-are-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/people-who-think-that-they-are-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"People Who Think That They are Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"squirrel by hopers, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/3293335099\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3404\/3293335099_2f9a33fce8.jpg?resize=465%2C360\" alt=\"squirrel\" width=\"465\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDoes this drive anyone else totally bonkers, or is it just me? You&#8217;re walking along, minding your own business, when suddenly you see some pedestrian run out into traffic like a crazed squirrel with a death wish. They usually throw their arms up, as if to ward of the incoming cars. Cars who have green lights. Cars who have no choice but to yield to some crazy person who couldn&#8217;t be bothered to wait 7 seconds for the walk signal.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the cars might have the right of way, but it is generally frowned upon to not stop for people who are smaller and squishier than your vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I generally stay on the curb, scratching my head in confusion and waiting for the light to change before I cross.<\/p>\n<p>I usually don&#8217;t have to wait very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this drive anyone else totally bonkers, or is it just me? You&#8217;re walking along, minding your own business, when suddenly you see some pedestrian run out into traffic like&hellip;<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble","category-the-great-blog-off"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}