{"id":9454,"date":"2020-03-10T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:44:32","slug":"rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/10\/rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"IMG_1240.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1240.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG 1240\" width=\"69\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/>Woke up to rain on the roof this morning. I rolled over and went back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s nothing I need to do outside. I suppose I could park the car outside for a free wash.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, too much effort to get dressed.<\/p>\n<p>I will get out of bed eventually, but right now it&rsquo;s nice just sitting here listening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Something about rain is soothing. As long as I don&rsquo;t have to drive in it with all the other people on the road, many of whom don&rsquo;t have the skill to be driving, or the sense God gave a goose.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve often wondered if putting a 21 day wait time on the purchase of a car would impart to people that cars are at least as dangerous to use as a gun.<\/p>\n<p>In what universe does it make sense to fly up behind and sit on someones bumper who&rsquo;s already doing 80? It make less sense to do that when you can see that the traffic ahead is coming to a stop. All it takes is a little common sense to realize that the person whose bumper you&rsquo;re rinding is likely to hit their brakes.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the situation I found myself in on Sunday afternoon on the I-15. The moron behind me was totally shocked when I hit my brakes to stop. The idiot locked their wheels and darted into the emergency lane to avoid hitting me (there was at least that mercy). I&rsquo;d been slowing and tapping my brakes to accommodate the traffic in front of me. The woman riding my bumper was heedless, and I suspect distracted by her damn phone.<\/p>\n<p>I figured that my car would be in the shop again, but no worries I&rsquo;m going to be out of town and with luck my car would be repaired by the time I got back.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness it was a clear sunny day and the roads were dry, otherwise the silly person would&rsquo;ve spun and taken me and a bunch of other people out with her foolishness.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe today in the rain she&rsquo;ll cause the destruction she so narrowly missed causing Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Today I won&rsquo;t worry about it.&nbsp;I&rsquo;m going to be home, snug and warm listening to the rain on my roof.&nbsp;I could look at the live traffic maps and enjoy the mayhem vicariously.<\/p>\n<p>Nope! For the next foreseeable hour or two, I&rsquo;m turning off the tech and going back to sleep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re out in the rain, drive carefully and try to take a moment to enjoy the sound of rain on a roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up to rain on the roof this morning. I rolled over and went back to sleep. There&rsquo;s nothing I need to do outside. I suppose I could park the car outside for a free wash. Nope, too much effort to get dressed. I will get out of bed eventually, but right now it&rsquo;s nice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/10\/rainy-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rainy Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-general","category-stupid-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}