{"id":24721,"date":"2011-01-20T22:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/20\/there-but-for-the-grace-of-dog\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:29:28","slug":"there-but-for-the-grace-of-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/there-but-for-the-grace-of-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"There but for the grace of dog go I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R0RA9Pw6Z2o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fountain Lady, Imma let you be upset and all in a minute, but right now I&#8217;ve got to say that there is not a single one of the 37 million people who watched you fall in the water &#8216;cuz you were texting and not watching where you were going who has not at some time or another in their life ran into a light pole or stepped off a curb they didn&#8217;t see or something similar.  The only difference between you and the rest of us is that your misstep matched a modern meme &#8230; misadventure due to texting &#8230; and it got totally YouTubed.    Rather than being upset, you should do what that homeless guy did and get a job as a TV game show host or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it could have been worse.  You could have been driving a school bus down by the river or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fountain Lady, Imma let you be upset and all in a minute, but right now I&#8217;ve got to say that there is not a single one of the 37 million people who watched you fall in the water &#8216;cuz you were texting and not watching where you were going who has not at some time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/there-but-for-the-grace-of-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There but for the grace of dog go I<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6qJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}