{"id":431,"date":"2018-06-08T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=431"},"modified":"2018-08-27T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:05:01","slug":"iowa-drivers-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2018\/06\/08\/iowa-drivers-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Drivers, Pt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-433 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tailgating-main-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tailgating-main-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tailgating-main.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Back in <a href=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/iowa-drivers-pt-1\/\">Part 1<\/a> I talk about the driver who feels the need to come to a virtual stop to make a right turn. Today we&#8217;re going to talk about their cousin, the late signaler.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m cruising down the road, half a block from the next intersection. The car in front of me is slowing down to a virtual crawl. I can already see what&#8217;s going to happen, being the superior driver that I am. Slower, slower, constantly slower, almost to a stop&#8230; then they whip a hard right onto the cross street and whip on their turn signal as their hand passes the lever turning the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, driving genius. That helped. Ya know, I never knew anything was up prior and you sure saved me from rear-ending you with that proper cautionary warning. &lt;insert eye roll here&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Why did you even bother?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Part 1 I talk about the driver who feels the need to come to a virtual stop to make a right turn. Today we&#8217;re going to talk about their cousin, the late signaler. I&#8217;m cruising down the road, half a block from the next intersection. The car in front of me is slowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disbelief","category-driving","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}