{"id":502,"date":"2005-12-13T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=502"},"modified":"2005-12-13T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T20:41:02","slug":"flirting-with-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/flirting-with-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Flirting with Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was moving this painting today:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/painting\/images\/squid_whale400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\"\/><br \/>\nI was rushed because someone wanted me to move my car out of the driveway at my studio. So I just bungied my painting to the top of my car. It seemed secure enough. Normally I would tie them down but I didn&#8217;t want to scratch the painting (hah) and tieing takes forever. I was about a block away and starting to feel like I should check the bungies. Suddenly one of the bungies sproinged off. My painting flung through the air like it was being shot out of a slingshot. It landed in the middle of the road and I watched in horror as a vehicle quickly approached it. I thought for sure it was a goner. Suddenly, a truck coming the other direction whipped in front of it, blocking it from oncoming traffic. They saved my painting from certain destruction! I am so lucky, it&#8217;s not even funny. I should have given them cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Not only am I lucky that my painting wasn&#8217;t destroyed, I am even luckier that I didn&#8217;t hurt anyone. I&#8217;m sorry world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was moving this painting today: I was rushed because someone wanted me to move my car out of the driveway at my studio. So I just bungied my painting to the top of my car. It seemed secure enough. Normally I would tie them down but I didn&#8217;t want to scratch the painting (hah) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}