{"id":142,"date":"2004-01-01T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=142"},"modified":"2006-10-20T21:39:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T01:39:24","slug":"joan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/01\/01\/joan\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"joan_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/joan_sm.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nJoan arrives and Brian acquires an alert, intelligent look.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t believe the two events were related. <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/joan.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Matthew told us tonight,  about walking home the other afternoon. He was near the bend on Central St, maybe a half mile from home, when a a guy in a white sedan pulls to a stop and asks him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you so and so?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Matt replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The guy gives  him a long look and then says,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to see something amazing, anyway.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He then drives away, down the street and around the curve. Less than a minute later Matthew sees the same car approaching at about sixty miles an hour. When the car gets to almost where he is standing, the driver spins his steering wheel and does a perfect 180 degree, sliding  turn, so that he is now in the opposite lane and heading back the way he came.<\/p>\n<p>No more words  are exchanged. Demonstration over,  the guy in the car simply drives away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan arrives and Brian acquires an alert, intelligent look. I don&#8217;t believe the two events were related. View larger image Matthew told us tonight, about walking home the other afternoon. He was near the bend on Central St, maybe a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/01\/01\/joan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}