{"id":3919,"date":"2008-08-08T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:43:28","slug":"the-drive-in-with-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-drive-in-with-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"The drive in with NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I had to drive to work today due to meetings in Mesquite later today.<\/p>\n<p>And I have to say, despite the annoyance that sometimes comes with having to wait on a DART bus or sitting next to someone who&#8217;s a heavy smoker &#8212; I&#8217;d rather do that any day than have to drive and sit in traffic day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>However driving to work does give me a better opportunity to catch up on the day&#8217;s news with NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting stuff today that you may or may not know&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have an accident in the City of Dallas and are not a city resident, you&#8217;ll be charged $600 if you request police or fire assistance.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsinbrief\/index.html#MT93409062\">12 people were killed in Sherman, Texas<\/span> this morning when their bus (carrying them to a mission project) likely blew a tire and ran off an overpass.<\/li>\n<li>Folks in Fort Worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/kera\/news.newsmain?action=article&#038;ARTICLE_ID=1335875\">aren&#8217;t happy<\/a> and are protesting the continued drilling of gas wells within their city.<\/li>\n<li>Texas Gov. <del datetime=\"2008-08-08T13:28:17+00:00\">McDreamy<\/del> Perry requested that the EPA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/kera\/news.newsmain?action=article&#038;ARTICLE_ID=1335893\">waive their requirements<\/a> to add ethanol to gasoline within the state. The EPA told Perry to dream on.<\/li>\n<li>Despite a jury saying a former driver for bin Laden would only have to serve out 5 more months at Guantanamo &#8211; the Pentagon tells everyone, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93408956\">So what? We&#8217;re the US Government<\/a>, we can hold him as long as we like.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ammon Shea<\/strong> likes reading &#8212; a lot. So he decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93170569\">read the nearly 22,000 pages<\/a> in the Oxford English Dictionary. Among some of his favorite words :: bedinner; bemissionary; gymnologize; twi-thought; and vocabularian.<\/li>\n<li>The US Government says they have found &#8220;without a doubt&#8221; the Anthrax killer from 2001. Apparently for the US Government, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93408946\">without a doubt<\/a>&#8221; can be based primarily on &#8220;circumstantial evidence.&#8221; Sadly, their suspect committed suicide last week &#8211; meaning there will never be a trial to prove or disprove the government&#8217;s statements given at a press conference last week.<\/li>\n<li>Oh and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93410618\">Olympics<\/a> have started in China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it, all the news that matters to you\/me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>related ::<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/kera\/news.newsmain\">KERA main newsroom<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=3\">NPR&#8217;s morning edition<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/misc\/look-for-me-during-the-olympics\/'>SSL :: look for me during the olympics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3424\">SSL :: why i ride dart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I had to drive to work today due to meetings in Mesquite later today. And I have to say, despite the annoyance that sometimes comes with having to wait on a DART bus or sitting next to someone who&#8217;s a heavy smoker &#8212; I&#8217;d rather do that any day than have to drive and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-drive-in-with-npr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The drive in with NPR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,5,17],"tags":[1360,1355,1352,1353,1354,1356,1362,882,1361,1358,1359,1357],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsandpop","category-politics","category-take-action","tag-anthrax","tag-bus","tag-city-of-dallas","tag-fees","tag-ft-worth","tag-gov-mcdreamy","tag-guantanamo","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-oxford-english-dictionary","tag-rick-perry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-11d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}