{"id":1444,"date":"2006-07-31T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2006-07-31T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T18:12:59","slug":"crash-test-dummy-pt-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/crash-test-dummy-pt-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash Test Dummy? (PT saga)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped my PT off at the dealer to see if an EGR replacement will fix the stall when hot problem it&#8217;s been having. I got there early and heard health stories from the very cordial guy who runs the service department. Then I took the shuttle into town &#8212; almost.<\/p>\n<p>After stopping by at Duke with the other rider, we headed down 15-501 for Chapel Hill. But just before the new soon to be improved much much much safer superstreet intersection, the traffic suddenly can to a halt. Not slowly enough for us. The shuttle plowed into the back of a state Highway Department pickup which rammed into the back of a big ole red construction pickup which just missed bonking a police car which was conveniently on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Although the policeman was on the scene, the scene proceded very very slooooowly. No one was hurt. Only the shuttle was badly smashed.<\/p>\n<p>While we were waiting for the paperwork to be done, the driver tested the shuttle which seemed drivable. So far so good.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was another almost identical fender bender right past us. &#8220;Somebody ought to fix this intersection,&#8221; said the highway dept guy with a bit of ironic gallows humor.<\/p>\n<p>At Don&#8217;s suggestion, I kept an eye out for the D bus. Just as he described it came down the access road right beside us. I waved it down and it stopped and took me to the Morehead Planetarium.<\/p>\n<p>All this before 9:30 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped my PT off at the dealer to see if an EGR replacement will fix the stall when hot problem it&#8217;s been having. I got there early and heard health stories from the very cordial guy who runs the service department. Then I took the shuttle into town &#8212; almost. After stopping by at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-pt-saga","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}