{"id":6400,"date":"2004-09-10T06:44:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T13:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/10\/i-feel-the-need-for-speed.html"},"modified":"2004-09-10T06:44:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T13:44:35","slug":"i_feel_the_need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/i_feel_the_need.html","title":{"rendered":"I feel the need for speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the county sherriff will let you get away with blowing through the speed limit when he sees what you have on your tail &#8212; at least until he figures out it&#8217;s just balloons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"missiles.jpg\" title=\"Missile balloons\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/missiles.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"284\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/missile_balloons_the_easy_way_to_justify_speeding_down_the_highway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the county sherriff will let you get away with blowing through the speed limit when he sees what you have on your tail &#8212; at least until he figures&#8230;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5188,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/18\/hey_you_kids_ge.html","url_meta":{"origin":6400,"position":0},"title":"Hey, you kids!  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