{"id":944,"date":"2006-07-25T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2006-07-25T04:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T04:21:00","slug":"so-much-for-citizen-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/so-much-for-citizen-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for citizen journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If I were a better person, I’d have told you about this waaaay earlier. The red machine is actually a tow truck or something, and not part of the 18-wheeler.<\/font><\/p>\n

Today I was traveling eastbound on Union at about 3:45 p.m. when traffic started getting choked up near Methodist Hospital. Soon the flashing lights of emergency vehicles became apparent and, as I crept on down the road, I could see what the holdup was. An 18-wheeler had keeled over at the intersection of Union and Bellevue and spilled its entire load of plank wood (two-by-fours? I have no clue. Name a dimension; that could have been it). I guess it had been making the left turn from Bellevue onto Union, and was going too fast and just fell right on over. Pretty scary stuff. I have no idea if anyone was hurt, but it happened right at the hospital, so perhaps even if the driver was wounded, he\/she got relatively instantaneous treatment. <\/p>\n

As I passed the scene, it occurred to me that I was carrying my camera in my purse, so I whipped it out, snapped some pictures through my filthy driver’s side window (since the damned thing won’t roll down anymore). I had visions of running home, posting the photo, and warning everyone to steer clear of that area. <\/p>\n

But I got here and ended up getting sidetracked by a million things, and didn’t get around to doing it until just now, nearly nine hours later.<\/p>\n

You’re welcome. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I were a better person, I’d have told you about this waaaay earlier. The red machine is actually a tow truck or something, and not part of the 18-wheeler. Today I was traveling eastbound on Union at about 3:45 p.m. when traffic started getting choked up near Methodist Hospital. Soon the flashing lights of emergency vehicles became apparent and, as I crept on down the road, I could see what the holdup was. An… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-fe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}