{"id":795,"date":"2008-11-24T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:43:12","slug":"the-road-is-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"The road is long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this evening it took me three hours to get home. Which is good. And bad.<\/p>\n<p>The good; the extra hour of the journey was spent shortlisting music for future episodes of the podcast, sorting out a few talking points for this week&#8217;s episode and writing up a few notes in preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The bad; the principle of cause and effect.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>The journey took three hours instead of its customary because a car broke down. It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n<p>A. Car. Broke. Down.<\/p>\n<p>One car. Single. Solitary. Solo.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering what this simple statement declares to visitors to this country\/continent\/hemisphere\/planet the unplanned event of having a single car break down on a three-lane highway can adversely affect the journeys of several hundred thousand people?<\/p>\n<p>Answers on a used \u00a320 note please.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this evening it took me three hours to get home. Which is good. And bad. The good; the extra hour of the journey was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}