{"id":1036,"date":"2010-10-24T10:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2010-10-24T14:55:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T13:55:58","slug":"blues-and-twos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Blues and Twos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly a day goes by without encountering an emergency vehicle with all lights flashing and horns blaring, usually it&#8217;s an ambulance.  What staggers me is the way in which the majority of motorists react as soon as they see the emergency vehicle &#8211; slam the brakes on and stop!  Doesn&#8217;t matter if they&#8217;re just short of the brow of a hill, a bend in the road, opposite a parked car or at a point at where the road narrows.  I can&#8217;t recall if how to react to these situations is covered in the driving theory test?  If I&#8217;m correct in thinking it&#8217;s not, perhaps that explains why the majority of drivers react as they do, although common sense should tell you what to do without having to be taught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly a day goes by without encountering an emergency vehicle with all lights flashing and horns blaring, usually it&#8217;s an ambulance. What staggers me is the way in which the majority of motorists react as soon as they see the emergency vehicle &#8211; slam the brakes on and stop! Doesn&#8217;t matter if they&#8217;re just short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}