{"id":153,"date":"2009-10-03T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-10-03T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:24:54","slug":"attack-of-the-mutant-lamppost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/attack-of-the-mutant-lamppost\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the mutant lamppost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crunch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-152\" title=\"crunch\" src=\"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crunch-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"crunch\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crunch-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crunch.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So I was working from home the other day, around mid-morning, when I heard a mighty crunch from outside. I looked out my window and was confronted with the scene to the left.<\/p>\n<p>I snapped a picture, and watched as a crowd started to gather, and then after about 5 minutes, the driver emerged from the car, shaking his head. He made a great show of examining the lamppost and chatted happily with the assembled crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Two things disturb me about this photo. The first is that I can't figure out how he managed to crash. There was no traffic around. Traffic on that road only goes about 15km\/h. The lamppost was clearly visible and easy to avoid. I can only conclude he lost control of the car, or suffered some kind of seizure.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing is &#8230; the lampost is in the middle of the road! I've been looking at that for the past year and it never struck me as odd until now. I am clearly innured to this sort of general strangeness.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the conclusion to this story is that a couple of hours later a policeman wandered by and took notes. Then a guy arrived with a tin of yellow paint and painted the base of the lamppost yellow. Apparently then, the guy just hadn't seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was working from home the other day, around mid-morning, when I heard a mighty crunch from outside. I looked out my window and was confronted with the scene to the left. I snapped a picture, and watched as a crowd started to gather, and then after about 5 minutes, the driver emerged from &#8230; <a title=\"Attack of the mutant lamppost.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/attack-of-the-mutant-lamppost\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Attack of the mutant lamppost.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}