{"id":2100,"date":"2004-01-07T04:53:45","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T20:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/07\/this-town-is-a-mess\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:55:30","slug":"this-town-is-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/07\/this-town-is-a-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"This town is a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are slowly starting to return to a semblance of normality as the weather warms up and all the snow starts to melt. However, <em>slowly<\/em> is definitely they key word. The promised warm temperatures that were supposed to melt everything away overnight never quite materialized, instead bringing us freezing rain. Today we&#8217;ve got more rain, so the town is blanketed in half-melted snow, slush, huge puddles, all on top of still-icy streets.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be surprsied at all if today turns out to have more accidents, simply because since it&#8217;s not snowing, people will think that they can drive normally. Conditions like this certainly don&#8217;t make for safe driving, though, and it&#8217;s my bet that quite a few people will be figuring that out over the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as a pedestrian\/bus rider, I&#8217;m stuck with slogging through slushy sidewalks, wading through ever-growing puddles (storm drains designed for Seattle&#8217;s usual rain don&#8217;t work nearly as well when clogged with snow and slush), and trying to avoid being splashed by drivers who go tearing through the puddles. I swear some of these people actually drive in the gutter on purpose when they see some poor sap slogging along on the sidewalk! Shmoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t be surprsied at all if today turns out to have more accidents, simply because since it&#8217;s not snowing, people will think that they can drive normally. Conditions like this certainly don&#8217;t make for safe driving, though, and it&#8217;s my bet that quite a few people will be figuring that out over the course of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}