{"id":481,"date":"2010-06-23T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T01:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:12:47","slug":"to-protect-and-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"To Protect and Serve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the road heading toward a high school friend&#8217;s place. Just a half mile or less we encounter this extremely wide load escorted by the Arizona Highway Patrol. The mini convoy was going no faster than 5 mph! We&#8217;re already behind schedule so when we get to the junction in the road I pull alongside of the highway patrol car and ask the deputy if it&#8217;s possible we can just slide by while they are <strong><em>stopped<\/em><\/strong> waiting to turn left. He says &#8220;No!&#8221; I am pissed. He expected me to follow this wide load for over 25 miles at 5 mph when he could have just simply let us by.<\/p>\n<p>Well since that didn&#8217;t fly, I made a U-turn and proceeded to head back in town to find an alternate route. No sooner than I had the car 180 degrees in the opposite direction, the Border Patrol pulls us over. He comes up and starts questioning my citizenship because I turned back from a checkpoint. After the confusion cleared up, he told me which was the fastest and less traveled way to get out of town. A few minutes later we are on the road and ready to beat the wide load to the next intersection 25 plus miles away&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-482\" title=\"jackass highway patrol car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/jackass-hwy-patrol-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/jackass-hwy-patrol-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/jackass-hwy-patrol.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the road heading toward a high school friend&#8217;s place. Just a half mile or less we encounter this extremely wide load escorted by the Arizona Highway Patrol. The mini convoy was going no faster than 5 mph! We&#8217;re&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=481\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[240,227,242,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}