{"id":40302,"date":"2014-01-06T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/um-please-people-slow-down-in-icy-conditions-really.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:53:12","slug":"um-please-people-slow-down-in-icy-conditions-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/um-please-people-slow-down-in-icy-conditions-really.html","title":{"rendered":"Um, please people, SLOW DOWN in icy conditions. Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Jeez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mistakes happen. I get it. But watching those\u00a0folks plow along, too close, at too high a speed, on this kind of surface, made me more angry than anything else, because <i>it simply wasn&#39;t necessary<\/i> for this accident happen. And a lot of <i>other<\/i> people ended up getting involved as a result.<\/p>\n<p>(via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/video-captures-chain-reaction-multi-car-crash-on-i-25-near-colorado-springs\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/video-captures-chain-reaction-multi-car-crash-on-i-25-near-colorado-springs<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77vmBLf99aQ?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SHQbyWPGibd' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeez.\u00a0 Mistakes happen. I get it. But watching those\u00a0folks plow along, too close, at too high a speed, on this kind of surface, made me more angry than anything else, because it simply wasn&#39;t necessary for this accident happen. And a lot of other people ended up getting involved as a result. (via\u00a0http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/video-captures-chain-reaction-multi-car-crash-on-i-25-near-colorado-springs)\ufeff View this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/um-please-people-slow-down-in-icy-conditions-really.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Um, please people, SLOW DOWN in icy conditions. Really&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-weather-and-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40849,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/how-injuries-happen-as-you-get-older.html","url_meta":{"origin":40302,"position":0},"title":"How injuries happen as you get older","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Jan-14 6:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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