{"id":2896,"date":"2009-07-20T19:21:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2009-07-20T19:21:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:21:22","slug":"this-story-is-oddly-frightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"This story is oddly frightening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(But then, pretty much everything is oddly frightening.)<br \/>\n<br \/><strong><br \/>\n<br \/>I&#8217;m remarkably empty<\/strong> of rational (or any other kind of) thought tonight, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,533803,00.html\">this story<\/a> caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t often find me blogging about cars.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure I&#8217;d enjoy meeting the lady, as they describe her in the article, but she definitely has her own style.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 600,000 miles later, the 90-year-old Florida woman still drives her 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I might note that you don&#8217;t generally find cars that old in Minnesota, because of the road salt. So don&#8217;t blame me for Mrs. Hermanson&#8217;s rust. It&#8217;s society&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. I have a book out. You can order it <a href=\"http:\/\/nordskogpublishing.com\/book-west_oversea.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(But then, pretty much everything is oddly frightening.) I&#8217;m remarkably empty of rational (or any other kind of) thought tonight, but this story caught my eye. You don&#8217;t often find me blogging about cars. I&#8217;m not entirely sure I&#8217;d enjoy meeting the lady, as they describe her in the article, but she definitely has her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This story is oddly frightening<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}