{"id":2247,"date":"2009-05-29T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T23:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T23:52:50","slug":"lucky-to-be-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Lucky to be alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chainringtransitauthority\/3880827938\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3453\/3880827938_789d3ab426_t.jpg\" alt=\"In Praise of Gas Pipe...\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">chainring transit authority<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/3573764555\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3322\/3573764555_fda9d09da2_t.jpg\" alt=\"watch for cyclists\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">sign<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI was reminded of the sign on a bus and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/3573764555\/\">hostile discussion<\/a> it generated. One of my friends who rides a bike had a near miss when a woman opened a door on a taxi and knocked him off his bike.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chainringtransitauthority\/3880827938\/\"><em><!--more-->Even though I always give taxis a wide berth, this time I cut it a few inches too close and I found myself on my back looking at an oncoming bus. As I was landing about 3 metres(10 feet) in front of the taxi and I saw the Peugeot go flying past me to end up in the middle lane of traffic. Unfortunately, I am not as tough as the Peugeot which survived the crash with nothing more than a scratch or two, while I ended up with a multiple fractures to my left forearm and wrist and was treated at the hospital for suspected internal bleeding.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of the sign on a bus and the hostile discussion it generated. One of my friends who[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,421,673,3324],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","tag-accident","tag-bike","tag-car-door","tag-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}