{"id":13244,"date":"2013-07-12T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T22:14:17","slug":"honestly-officer-i-sneezed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"Honestly, Officer. I Sneezed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Range Rover in Essex smashes into electricity pole - driver &quot;sneezed&quot;\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 244px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 244\/142;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Range Rover in Essex smashes into electricity pole - driver &quot;sneezed&quot;\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/range_rover_essex.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"142\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">A <a title=\"Driver's sneeze cuts power to 382 homes and businesses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/10538587.Driver_s_sneeze_cuts_power_to_382_homes_and_businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Range Rover in Essex smashed into an electricity pole<\/a> and cut the power to hundreds of homes and businesses. The driver reckons that \u201che sneezed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it\u2019d have been so simple if his sneeze had caused him to plough into a pedestrian or a cyclist? As it is, all we\u2019re talking about is several thousand pounds to replace the pole and restore power, and the loss of money to those businesses affected.<\/p>\n<p>You can make your own mind up. I suppose it depends a lot on whether you\u2019re one of those annoying people who puts on a full Shakespearean performance when they sneeze (and who is too stupid to realise that there are places where that\u2019s not a good idea anyway), or one who doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes sneeze in the car \u2013 everyone does. I have never even come close to having an accident as a result, and certainly not one as bad as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Range Rover in Essex smashed into an electricity pole and cut the power to hundreds of homes and businesses. The driver reckons that \u201che sneezed\u201d. I wonder if it\u2019d have been so simple if his sneeze had caused him to plough into a pedestrian or a cyclist? As it is, all we\u2019re talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}