{"id":767,"date":"2004-04-26T22:45:51","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T22:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=767"},"modified":"2004-04-26T22:45:51","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T22:45:51","slug":"oregon-commuters-channel-the-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/oregon-commuters-channel-the-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon commuters channel the Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Back Seat, a commuting column at the Oregonian, seems to have invited readers to imagine how Hunter Thompson<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1082980550298260.xml\"> would handle a commute <\/a>into Portland.  Sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While beating out the flames from a small fire my attorney inadvertently set in the back seat, I let the Shark wander onto the shoulder, causing a hitchhiker to jump from the I-5 shoulder.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe freak fell 45 feet down the embankment towards John&#8217;s Landing, and is now demanding cash for his injuries.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMy attorney is useless as a witness &#8212; he fled to Pago Pago, and is in a coma. Isn&#8217;t hitchhiking on an Interstate illegal to begin with? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HST can be imitated but not equaled.  For this the federal narcotics enforcers are thankful.<br \/>\n<P>Thanks to Bob Patterson for the link (you have to click through a little registration thing the Oregonian has &#8230; it won&#8217;t kill you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Back Seat, a commuting column at the Oregonian, seems to have invited readers to imagine how Hunter Thompson would handle a commute into Portland. Sample: While beating out the flames from a small fire my attorney inadvertently set in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/oregon-commuters-channel-the-doc\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}