{"id":116,"date":"2004-10-12T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-10-12T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:47:02","slug":"dont-eat-apple-crumble-and-wish-to-die-it-might-just-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/dont-eat-apple-crumble-and-wish-to-die-it-might-just-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#39;t eat apple crumble and wish to die.. it might just happen.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got off the bike around 11.40pm last night&#8230; alarm going off at 5.55am this morning. <sarcasm>Yay.<\/sarcasm> I figure I&#8217;ll sleep properly when I die.. <\/p>\n<p>which was almost last night thanks to some tool in a white Falcon. He was obviously blind to bright flashing lights and reflective material and decided to drive across a couple of lanes to get into the service station. The same service station that I was riding in front of. <\/p>\n<p>As soon as I realised he was coming at me, I hit the brakes and did the &#8216;panic turn&#8217; move, turning &#8216;with&#8217; the car in order to avoid hitting it. The move worked out well. I was forced into the servo alongside the car but there was no contact between us. Go hippy!<\/p>\n<p>I yelled and gestured at the driver and he apologised with a wave. I continued on merrily towards home (as merrily as I could with way too much dinner sitting inside my normally cavernous stomach.. mmm.. apple crumble).<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned: No matter how sick you are feeling from eating too much baked apple product before riding.. don&#8217;t actually wish to be run over.. I did, and my wish, was nearly granted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got off the bike around 11.40pm last night&#8230; alarm going off at 5.55am this morning. Yay. I figure I&#8217;ll sleep properly when I die.. which was almost last night thanks to some tool in a white Falcon. He was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/dont-eat-apple-crumble-and-wish-to-die-it-might-just-happen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}