{"id":1886,"date":"2004-12-15T11:03:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2004-12-15T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T16:03:03","slug":"true-parking-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"True Parking Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the last spot in the parking lot this morning.  There were two big SUVs, one on either side of this space, and a big ol&#8217; Caddy Escalade jockeying to try to fit between them.  I couldn&#8217;t get past them to get out of the lot, so I waited for a minute or two while they did the slow back and forth dance of someone who doesn&#8217;t want to lose their rear view mirrors.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nEventually they gave up and pulled forward.  Then they stopped and the driver got out of the car.  I rolled down my window and asked if it was ok for me to park there or if they were going to give it another try.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;No, go ahead and park.  I just want to watch this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230;  Easy enough.  I was able to just turn out a little bit and pull straight in.  And as I was getting my stuff out of the car, I could hear the driver of the Escalade continuing an argument with his front seat passenger:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See!  I <b>told<\/b> you we should have gotten a bug!  If you&#8217;d listened to me, we&#8217;d both be at work by now!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the last spot in the parking lot this morning. There were two big SUVs, one on either side of this space, and a big ol&#8217; Caddy Escalade jockeying to try to fit between them. I couldn&#8217;t get past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}