{"id":1791,"date":"2007-08-16T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/08\/16\/mopac-rant-its-the-shoulder-stupid\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:12:22","slug":"mopac-rant-its-the-shoulder-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/mopac-rant-its-the-shoulder-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mopac Rant: It&#039;s the shoulder, stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dimwits travelling south on Mopac near 183 in the evening:<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s difficult to grasp since the road has been repaved and they haven&#8217;t yet re-striped it yet (not sure that they will since it&#8217;s been this way for nearly a week), but there&#8217;s only two lanes on Mopac for most of the way between 360 and Steck.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not your own special left lane. It hasn&#8217;t been cleared for just for you.<\/p>\n<p>When you get to Steck, you&#8217;ll realize that you&#8217;ve been driving on the shoulder like a douche. It&#8217;s ok. We all make mistakes. Just merge your massive SUV back into traffic without hitting the rest of us and keep staring ahead and talking on that cell phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dimwits travelling south on Mopac near 183 in the evening: I know it&#8217;s difficult to grasp since the road has been repaved and they haven&#8217;t yet re-striped it yet (not sure that they will since it&#8217;s been this way for nearly a week), but there&#8217;s only two lanes on Mopac for most of the <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/mopac-rant-its-the-shoulder-stupid\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-sT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}