{"id":3044,"date":"2010-12-14T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2010-12-14T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:00:47","slug":"pontiac-has-terrible-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/pontiac-has-terrible-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontiac Has Terrible Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/IMG_20101214_092137.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/95755-2\/IMG_20101214_092137.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Terrible roads in Pontiac #2. (W. South Blvd., just west of Opdyke.)\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pontiac,_Michigan\">Pontiac<\/a> is the first town in which I&#8217;ve worked where I also have to pay a city <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Income_tax\">income tax<\/a>. It is also the worst city I&#8217;ve had to deal with road-wise. Two days after a moderate winter snowfall there is still an inch of ice on all roads making even the most gradual uphill difficult to drive. Pulling away from a stoplight is almost always a matter of frustration involving 10-15 seconds of figuring out how to acquire traction.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should just buy myself some snow tires. It&#8217;d make driving (all around) much nicer during winter.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/IMG_20101214_092127.jpg.html\">Another road photo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/IMG_20101213_130829.jpg.html\">a view from near my new desk<\/a> on Monday.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiac is the first town in which I&#8217;ve worked where I also have to pay a city income tax. It is also the worst city&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/pontiac-has-terrible-roads\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pontiac Has Terrible Roads<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-politics","category-weather","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}