{"id":1082,"date":"2013-12-04T16:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2023-05-29T02:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T07:08:37","slug":"odometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/04\/odometer","title":{"rendered":"Odometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m driving and my odometer is about to reach a cool number, like a multiple of 1000 or where all the numbers are the same (it just recently passed 55,555 miles), I find myself watching it, waiting for it to change. Waited when it was at 49,999 and saw it switch to 50,000. Did same at 54,999. Did same at 55,554.<\/p>\n<p>So awesome! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when I&#8217;m paying so much attention to the odometer, it takes some attention away from the road. So this really isn&#8217;t a good idea. I don&#8217;t take my eyes off the road entirely, as that would just be stupid, but I glance back and forth repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me wonder&#8230; for car accidents caused by a driver simply not paying attention and the reason for the inattention isn&#8217;t clear, what were the odometer readings? Was the driver doing like I do and just watching for it to tick over to some round number?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the message is clear&#8230; ODOMETERS KILL!!!!! \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m driving and my odometer is about to reach a cool number, like a multiple of 1000 or where all the numbers are the same (it just recently passed 55,555 miles), I find myself watching it, waiting for it to change. Waited when it was at 49,999 and saw it switch to 50,000. Did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/04\/odometer\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Odometer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-places","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}