{"id":29949,"date":"2019-08-20T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29949"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:48:41","slug":"briefly-simple-error-and-near-accident-remind-me-how-fallible-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29949","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Simple error and near accident remind me how fallible I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Car-accident.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29950\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Car-accident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Car-accident.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Car-accident-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driving a car is terrifying if you allow yourself to be aware of all the things that can go wrong. I just made a simple right turn \u2014 one which seemed quite safe \u2014 and it was only afterward that I realized I had not had the right of way and that an oncoming car almost hit me. I was completely at fault. If there had been an accident, I would definitely have been the one to blame. No matter how careful you attempt to be, you\u2019re going to make such mistakes. And you have even less control over the mistakes which others make. I suspect the only way we all allow ourselves to keep doing this dangerous thing is by choosing to remain in denial about our own very human fallibility.\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc Driving is the most dangerous thing we do every day, even though we rarely allow ourselves to realize how much danger we\u2019re in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving a car is terrifying if you allow yourself to be aware of all the things that can go wrong. I just made a simple right turn \u2014 one which seemed quite safe \u2014 and it was only afterward that I realized I had not had the right of way and that an oncoming car <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29949\" 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-29949","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-7N3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949","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=29949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29951,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions\/29951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}