{"id":723,"date":"2006-10-25T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=723"},"modified":"2006-10-25T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T12:00:09","slug":"lucky-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderduck.mu.nu\/archives\/201722.php\">Happy Birthday<\/a> to Wonderduck, who had <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderduck.mu.nu\/archives\/129384.php\">a very close shave a year ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>About a year ago a new ambulance station went in, less than a mile up the road.  So, my house is now <em>between<\/em> the ambulance and town, which means I have the occasional wailing sirens to cope with as the thing speeds by.  I thought that was pretty annoying for a while, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=704\">my daughter had her thing<\/a> and we needed an ambulance ourselves.  They were on our doorstep about two minutes after my wife made the call.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind the sirens anymore.  A little noise is a small price to pay for being two minutes from life-saving medical technology.  Gotta love those guys.<\/p>\n<p>Glad you&#8217;re still with us, Wonderduck, and still anime-blogging. I hope you&#8217;re still watching anime and F1 racing when you&#8217;re 110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to Wonderduck, who had a very close shave a year ago. About a year ago a new ambulance station went in, less than a mile up the road. So, my house is now between the ambulance and town, which means I have the occasional wailing sirens to cope with as the thing speeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}