{"id":774,"date":"2009-04-03T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=774"},"modified":"2010-03-21T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T08:32:13","slug":"rubber-up-shiny-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2009\/04\/03\/rubber-up-shiny-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Up, Shiny Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been going a little crazy waiting to hear back on a job interview I had last week, so I went out for a little clear-my-head putt yesterday afternoon. I was riding the closest twisty road to where I live \u2014 Mulholland Drive overlooking the San Fernando Valley, host to dozens of makeout sites used by thousands of high-schoolers over the years (myself included) \u2014 when I came across this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2009\/04\/img_4541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2009\/04\/img_4541-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_4541\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-422\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2009\/04\/img_4542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2009\/04\/img_4542-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_4542\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-423\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2009\/04\/img_4543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2009\/04\/img_4543-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_4543\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It had just happened when I went by, and by the time I circled back for pictures the ambulance had arrived. I don\u2019t think anyone was too badly hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m posting it because it illustrates perfectly the truth behind my blog\u2019s slogan, \u201cShiny up, rubber down. It just works better that way.\u201d As you can see, the reverse doesn\u2019t work so well. Remember that the next time you decide to get all agro in the corners in your PT Cruiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been going a little crazy waiting to hear back on a job interview I had last week, so I went out for a little clear-my-head putt yesterday afternoon. I was riding the closest twisty road to where I live \u2014 Mulholland Drive overlooking the San Fernando Valley, host to dozens of makeout sites used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}