{"id":3280,"date":"2013-04-05T04:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T12:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2020-10-04T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:13:42","slug":"randy-wells-writer-director-of-photography-porsche-travel-music-blog-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=3280","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/deer_117426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/deer_117426.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"deer_117426\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/deer_117426.jpg 250w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/deer_117426-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LUCKY TO BE ALIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it was raining hard (yes, I live near Seattle). My wife and I were traveling to the city to see our accountant. While driving at 60+ mph on a rural highway in a VW Jetta, a deer came out of nowhere and was suddenly looking at me a few inches away from my driver&#8217;s side window. He was trying to avoid me with his head jerked back. I responded by swerving the car. Together we narrowly averted catastrophe. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never forget that instant. And I&#8217;m guessing this deer won&#8217;t either. It&#8217;s at times like this when I&#8217;m glad I autocross. Thank you angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKY TO BE ALIVE Yesterday it was raining hard (yes, I live near Seattle). My wife and I were traveling to the city to see our accountant. While driving at 60+ mph on a rural highway in a VW Jetta, a deer came out of nowhere and was suddenly looking at me a few inches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=3280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20571,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/20571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}