{"id":982,"date":"2010-08-10T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/10\/those-durn-rocks-grrrr"},"modified":"2010-08-10T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:51:00","slug":"those-durn-rocks-grrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Those durn rocks &#8230; grrrr!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I spoke too soon. Shame on me.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought I had dodged a bullet because the seal-coating operation under way in my southwest Amarillo neighborhood wouldn&#8217;t affect me much because of our rear-entry driveway. And I said as much in an earlier post on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; I was wrong. I went brain-dead and forgot about the street behind our house from which we enter the alley that leads to our driveway and garage.<\/p>\n<p>I went home last night and found that gritty asphalt-covered gravel all over the street behind our house. It splattered the undercarriage of my car.<\/p>\n<p>Then, this morning, I awoke early (as usual) and headed down the alley for my morning workout. Then it happened.<\/p>\n<p>The car began howling from a noise underneath. I guess some of the seal-coated rocks had gotten into the brakes, causing that hideous whining sound.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s what I <em>hope<\/em> happened.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke too soon. Shame on me. I had thought I had dodged a bullet because the seal-coating operation under way in my southwest Amarillo neighborhood wouldn&#8217;t affect me much because of our rear-entry driveway. And I said as much in an earlier post on this blog. Well &#8230; I was wrong. I went brain-dead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Those durn rocks &#8230; grrrr!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}