{"id":1396,"date":"2007-03-22T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2007-03-22T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:32:26","slug":"pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight I&#8217;m coming out of a department store, come to the crosswalk, and a woman in a van waves me through.<br \/>\nI smile and nod, walk through, and then start walking up the aisle where the Exploder is parked. And then she <strong>RUNS INTO ME WITH HER VAN. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Not hard, thank God. I feel the bumper hit my calf which knocks that leg out from under me,and I grab her hood for balance. The noise startles her- she&#8217;s looking over her other shoulder, and she looks at me, brakes, and claps her hand to her mouth in horror.  She starts to get out of her van but i wave her off and go to the truck. <\/p>\n<p>Now, most days, I draw blood at some point or another. Usually barking my knuckles fighting some recalcitrant machinery. Some days, working with strong solvents, I&#8217;ll find that my fingers or hands are temporarily engulfed in flames. Today, I bled, caught fire, AND got hit by a car. And this was a GREAT day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight I&#8217;m coming out of a department store, come to the crosswalk, and a woman in a van waves me through. I smile and nod, walk through, and then start walking up the aisle where the Exploder is parked. And then she RUNS INTO ME WITH HER VAN. Not hard, thank God. I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}