{"id":2780,"date":"2009-01-05T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2009-01-05T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:16:47","slug":"speaking-of-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/05\/speaking-of-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"speaking of crises&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"348\" width=\"520\" vspace=\"7\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/rats.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"196\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/rat.jpg\" \/>So, on the December the 26th after my daughter headed back home from a good holiday visit, I took a nap. I drove my truck on Saturday the 27th &#8211; which was fine. On the 28th, I got in my truck and it was &quot;missing&quot; and an ominous light on the dashboard lit up, shaped like an engine. I turned it off. The next morning, a friend followed me as my truck limped and sputtered to Jasper Jeep where it still sits. Later that day, they called and said I might want to call my insurance company. Seems that a rat\/mouse\/squirrel\/possum had moved in on Saturday night and built a nest.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Fortunately, I have full coverage for rodent attacks on my truck, because it was a $2000 nest that the rat\/mouse\/squirrel\/possum had created on Saturday night. I&#8217;m now locally famous as the most recent such victim. Every time I tell this story, more people appear who have been similarly afflicted. The guy at Jasper Jeep says it happens a lot, particularly on cold nights. I told him that I preferred calling it a possum attack for aesthetic reasons, but they were adamant that it was either a rat or a &quot;very industrious field mouse.&quot; <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I&#8217;m thinking of starting a Support Group&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, on the December the 26th after my daughter headed back home from a good holiday visit, I took a nap. I drove my truck on Saturday the 27th &#8211; which was fine. On the 28th, I got in my truck and it was &quot;missing&quot; and an ominous light on the dashboard lit up, shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}