{"id":438,"date":"2006-11-28T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2008-06-22T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:26:31","slug":"a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take this picture, for instance:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061127\/LOCAL\/61127034\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ha Ha!\" title=\"Ha Ha!\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Dato=20061127&#038;Kategori=LOCAL&#038;Lopenr=61127034&#038;Ref=AR&#038;Q=80&#038;MaxW=500&#038;MaxH=400&#038;Site=BG&#038;Q=80&#038;Border=0&#038;Title=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I can think of a great many words that this picture is worth. Such as, &#8220;Ha ha&#8221;; &#8220;You dumbass&#8221;; &#8220;Your plastic-carbuncle-encrusted Hummer H3 is neither  an unopposable force of nature nor an indestructible triumph of military technology&#8221;; and of course, &#8220;Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Amazingly, the driver of the H3 was not killed in the crash. Kind of a pity, in a way; given that this is a rear-ending on what appears to be completely bare-and-dry blacktop, (s)he is almost certainly at fault. I&#8217;m not sure I want this person using the insurance money to buy another self-esteem-mobile and take to the roads again, using that same brain, only more concussed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On the bright side, look at how little damage that bus suffered in what must have been a spectacular crash. Other than the seats probably needing a serious steam-cleaning, it looks just about ready to go back on the road. Nice to see American motor vehicle companies are still building <em>some<\/em> things right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take this picture, for instance: I can think of a great many words that this picture is worth. Such as, &#8220;Ha ha&#8221;; &#8220;You dumbass&#8221;; &#8220;Your plastic-carbuncle-encrusted Hummer H3 is neither an unopposable force of nature nor an indestructible triumph of military technology&#8221;; and of course, &#8220;Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha&#8221;. Amazingly, the driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}