{"id":3870,"date":"2011-11-08T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:10:44","slug":"well-im-awake-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/11\/well-im-awake-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I&#8217;m Awake Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just drove home from work, feeling rather tired and thinking I&#8217;d go to bed relatively early tonight.\u00a0 As I passed the back entrance to the school campus, I had my eyes peeled since I&#8217;d seen deer on my way into work along this road.\u00a0 Just before I reached the top of the hill, though, I heard sirens coming towards me on the other side of the road, and I pulled over immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Up over the hill comes not one, not two, but <em>three<\/em> emergency vehicles, lights flashing, sirens wailing, horns blaring, and I thought perhaps Armageddon was starting.<\/p>\n<p>Then came a school bus.<\/p>\n<p>And another fire truck.<\/p>\n<p>And dozens of cars flashing lights and honking horns.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, one of the high school sports team just won a major event tonight.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard these escorts from afar (well, I live like two streets over from the school, so maybe not so far) but never actually seen one in progress.\u00a0 It was overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>And so now I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> wide awake.\u00a0 Adrenalin sucks.\u00a0 (And I didn&#8217;t see any deer, which is good, because I felt like a deer in headlights myself.)<em><\/em>\u00a0 Guess I&#8217;ll go find something good on TV and knit for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just drove home from work, feeling rather tired and thinking I&#8217;d go to bed relatively early tonight.\u00a0 As I passed the back entrance to the school campus, I had my eyes peeled since I&#8217;d seen deer on my way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}