{"id":589,"date":"2004-12-29T17:58:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/12\/29\/589\/"},"modified":"2004-12-29T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T22:58:25","slug":"589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/12\/29\/589\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to Caitlan&#8217;s car, which (after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/nfd\/2004\/12\/24\/0\" title=\"At the visitation, several people actually thought it was just a huge turtleneck.\">its acrobatics<\/a> last Wednesday) is totalled, Ian&#8217;s car is now a danger to drive; he&#8217;ll probably have to sell it for parts.  Regarding Mom&#8217;s van, the mechanic told her to keep driving it for what time it had left, then leave it wherever it broke down.<\/p>\n<p>Jon and Amanda, on their way to Tennessee for Christmas, skidded on ice and ran head-on into a truck.  They&#8217;re okay, but the car is gone, and Amanda&#8217;s collarbone is broken.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a bad December for cars, and for my family; but I am shaken by how much worse it could have been.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/nfd\/2003\/12\/27\/1\" title=\"Actually a little over a year ago, although I wrote about it exactly a year ago as well.\">A year ago<\/a> I was writing about the earthquake in Bam.  I thought an earthquake death toll of around 50,000 was the worst I&#8217;d see in my lifetime.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tsunami\/story\/0,15671,1380482,00.html\" title=\"Regarding Andaman and Nicobar islands in India:  &quot;In some areas it is thought that around two-thirds of the population have died.&quot;\">I was wrong<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 2330<\/b> hrs:  <i>And<\/i> my grandparents flipped their truck on ice on their way to Florida for Christmas.  They are also miraculously okay, and also currently without transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to Caitlan&#8217;s car, which (after its acrobatics last Wednesday) is totalled, Ian&#8217;s car is now a danger to drive; he&#8217;ll probably have to sell it for parts. Regarding Mom&#8217;s van, the mechanic told her to keep driving it for what time it had left, then leave it wherever it broke down. Jon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,35,46,40,80,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-caitlan","category-family","category-ian","category-joan","category-joe-wood","category-jon-and-amanda","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}