{"id":161,"date":"2008-05-06T21:57:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T02:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/stop-in-the-name-of-inevitability\/"},"modified":"2008-05-06T21:57:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T02:57:35","slug":"stop-in-the-name-of-inevitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/stop-in-the-name-of-inevitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop! In the Name of Inevitability&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since reclaiming my driver&#8217;s licence about a year ago &#8211; no, I didn&#8217;t lose it because of a DUI, it just lapsed because&#8230;.well, that&#8217;s a very long story that I&#8217;ll have to save for another post &#8211; anyway, since I got the dang thing <em>back<\/em>, I have had an abiding faith in the idiocy of my fellow humans, and their complete and utter incapacity to operate a motor vehicle in a rational, responsible and efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p>Here comes the science.  I nominate these guys for a <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/\" title=\"Dynamite!\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel prize<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/\" title=\"Even better!  The annals of improbable research will love this.\" target=\"_blank\">Ig Nobel<\/a> prize, employee of the month at Denny&#8217;s, and whatever other awards are available for distribution :  this brilliant and necessary work is truly an important and revealing look into the incompetence of your fellow man.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"350\" height=\"291\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Suugn-p5C1M&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Suugn-p5C1M&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"350\" height=\"291\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since reclaiming my driver&#8217;s licence about a year ago &#8211; no, I didn&#8217;t lose it because of a DUI, it just lapsed because&#8230;.well, that&#8217;s a very long story that I&#8217;ll have to save for another post &#8211; anyway, since I got the dang thing back, I have had an abiding faith in the idiocy of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[240,241,243,242,238,239,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}