{"id":2827,"date":"2005-12-08T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:18:19","slug":"message-from-interstate-70-westbound-5-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/message-from-interstate-70-westbound-5-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Interstate 70 Westbound, 5 pm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what really pushes my buttons in traffic?  The single thing that turns me from mild-mannered, but mildly-sadistic-QA-person into a seething hulk of inhuman anger?<\/p>\n<p>A bumper sticker that says <b>Stop Road Rage<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, not only does that particular driver think that he&#8217;s got an inside track into the psychology of the human condition, but also he thinks that you&#8217;re a weak-minded soul upon whom his Jedi mind trick of a bumper sticker will have some influence after he&#8217;s cut you off, zip zip,  while on the phone so he could move one car ahead in the jam to the exit and prompting your extreme braking with a methamped trucker on the road for 9:58 and wanting to make Forrestel in the next two minutes before his rig shuts off on your tail, the Mack&#8217;s lights so bright in your rearview mirror that you&#8217;re tanning, now burning.<\/p>\n<p>No, the <b>Stop Road Rage<\/b> bumper sticker works reverse psychology and actually <i>boosts road rage<\/i>.  It&#8217;s only slightly more annoying than the Prevent Child Abuse license plates profferred by the state of Missouri with the colorful handprints-in-green-paint-on-a-white-wall motif that indicates another damn mess made by the kid that you&#8217;ll have to clean up that deserves a spanking or too, all the while with Missouri not offering an opposing viewpoint with the inspirational message of Corporal Punishment Builds Good Republicans and a colorful belt logo.<\/p>\n<p>But, ah, we&#8217;re off the brakes and moving now past the friendly Motorist Assist truck behind the Corolla on the jack.  Never mind, life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what really pushes my buttons in traffic? The single thing that turns me from mild-mannered, but mildly-sadistic-QA-person into a seething hulk of inhuman anger? A bumper sticker that says Stop Road Rage. I mean, not only does that particular driver think that he&#8217;s got an inside track into the psychology of the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19044,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/19044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}