{"id":1255,"date":"2018-02-15T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:23:22","slug":"bad-drivers-the-universe-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Bad drivers, the universe and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4fd65\" data-offset-key=\"8gv3p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8gv3p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8gv3p-0-0\">I decided a little while back that I&#8217;ve been spending WAY too much time mad at other drivers. There are a lot of them out there, and\u2014sadly\u2014it doesn&#8217;t actually seem to affect them when I shriek obscenities at them. (There&#8217;s a chance they might not even notice!) What it <em>does<\/em> do is raise my blood pressure and cortisol level, no doubt shortening my lifespan. So for the sake of my health (not to mention my sanity), I&#8217;ve been working on Letting It Go.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4fd65\" data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4fd65\" data-offset-key=\"68jru-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"68jru-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"68jru-0-0\">The universe, however, is testing me, but good. Every random fool with a car key* is mysteriously being led to be wherever I am, and do the stupidest thing they can think of. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll make it through this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4fd65\" data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"68jru-0-0\">Wish me luck. Or stand by and watch my head explode.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4fd65\" data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fgpjg-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"68jru-0-0\"><em>*At least I hope to God it&#8217;s all of them.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided a little while back that I&#8217;ve been spending WAY too much time mad at other drivers. There are a lot of them out there, and\u2014sadly\u2014it doesn&#8217;t actually seem to affect them when I shriek obscenities at them. (There&#8217;s a chance they might not even notice!) What it does do is raise my blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}