{"id":131,"date":"2002-01-03T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-04T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2002-01-03T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-04T02:23:00","slug":"131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quote\"><strong>Rygel<\/strong>: No dominar from the House of Rygel ever travels in reverse!<\/p>\n<p><strong>John<\/strong>: Turn around, pretend you&#8217;re heading forward. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Farscape<\/em><\/div>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">It doesn&#8217;t take much more than a nozzle spraying you, your shoes, and the side of your new car with gasoline to make you feel like an idiot. I don&#8217;t know how much spilled, but it was enough. The ground was splashed, my shoes were splattered, and I&#8217;m almost certain I paid for more than actually found its way into my tank. It&#8217;s a new car, and I&#8217;ve almost never pumped my own gas &#8212; only twice before, actually &#8212; so I was a little worried I might make some dumb mistake. But not so worried I thought gasoline would start <em>geysering<\/em> from the nozzle in all directions. It&#8217;s impossible to stand there while that happens, desperately trying to <em>stop<\/em> it from happening, and look like anything but an idiot. This is what I get for trusting machines and trying to follow the directions they give me. Where&#8217;s a decent Butlerian Jihad when you need it?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rygel: No dominar from the House of Rygel ever travels in reverse! John: Turn around, pretend you&#8217;re heading forward. &#8211; Farscape It doesn&#8217;t take much more than a nozzle spraying you, your shoes, and the side of your new car with gasoline to make you feel like an idiot. I don&#8217;t know how much spilled, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=131\">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":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}