{"id":28680,"date":"2019-05-07T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28680"},"modified":"2019-05-07T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:15:14","slug":"briefly-death-of-teens-is-reminder-how-quickly-life-can-be-snuffed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28680","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Death of teens is reminder how quickly life can be snuffed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Accident-vehicle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28681\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Accident-vehicle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Accident-vehicle.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Accident-vehicle-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had another reminder this afternoon how fleeting life can be. When I got to my office Tuesday afternoon after lunch, police had blocked the street off for about a block. It turns out that two teen-agers \u2014 a male and a female \u2014 drove past our office at about 12:30 and then failed to make the turn at the top of Shades Mountain about a block from us where the road dead-ends into Shades Crest Road. Their SUV went over the top of the mountain and ended up about 150 yards below. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birmingham\/2019\/05\/vehicle-plunges-over-bluff-on-shades-crest-road-2-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Both were dead<\/a> before rescue workers got to them (and the vehicle was recovered later in the afternoon). It\u2019s just another routine accident, but since it happened right at my office, there\u2019s something powerful to me about knowing these two teens were alive and probably happy just six hours ago. We\u2019re in denial when we put off the lives we need to be living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had another reminder this afternoon how fleeting life can be. When I got to my office Tuesday afternoon after lunch, police had blocked the street off for about a block. It turns out that two teen-agers \u2014 a male and a female \u2014 drove past our office at about 12:30 and then failed to <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28680\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7sA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28682,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680\/revisions\/28682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}