{"id":22010,"date":"2019-05-22T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=22010"},"modified":"2019-06-25T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:07:27","slug":"poor-creature-thanks-to-austin-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/05\/22\/poor-creature-thanks-to-austin-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor creature thanks to Austin drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last night I was happily driving home because I got to meet Adam Savage of\u00a0<em>Mythbusters<\/em>\u00a0(more about this eventually) and while I was in the home stretch on Pflugerville&#8217;s main drag (aka FM 1825\/Pecan Street), a possum was on the road. I desperately wanted to stop, test the limits of my badly-need-to-be-replaced tires and spare the poor animal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It wasn&#8217;t meant to be thanks to a typical Austin Asshole driver riding my ass too closely so if I did the morally right thing, I would&#8217;ve been rear-ended with a 30% chance of the perpetrator being uninsured (thanks Texas GOP!)\u2026while they were looking at their damned phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I continue to feel horrible. I know possums are mean, gross-smelling marsupials with Taylor Swift eyes. Regardless, the creature didn&#8217;t deserve such a painful, unfair demise. Humans built where they&#8217;ve lived for centuries and despite their bad PR, possums do serve a purpose in the bigger scheme of nature. I have no idea what it may be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One big downside of this guilt is that I can&#8217;t easily go out and adopt another possum, give it a good life as penance like one could with a dog or cat. I&#8217;m open to suggestions if anyone has a solution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was happily driving home because I got to meet Adam Savage of\u00a0Mythbusters\u00a0(more about this eventually) and while I was in the home stretch on Pflugerville&#8217;s main drag (aka FM 1825\/Pecan Street), a possum was on the road. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/05\/22\/poor-creature-thanks-to-austin-drivers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[573,180],"class_list":["post-22010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","tag-animals","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22031,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010\/revisions\/22031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}