{"id":1756,"date":"2010-03-16T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/16\/okay-life-really-does-stink\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:21:00","slug":"okay-life-really-does-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/16\/okay-life-really-does-stink\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay. Life really does stink."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been beating up on me (a reporter!) the last few days for being too positive.  And then David Sommerstein goes and posts a happy photo from his mental health break.<\/p>\n<p>So to preserve balance, here&#8217;s my &#8220;life sucks&#8221; post of the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iirpHqO8nA4ZBeupaFWr_K6H7PmgD9EFOOEO1\">from an AP story out of South Carolina<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., died instantly Monday evening when he was hit by the single-engine plane, which had lost its propeller, said Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen. The pilot&#8217;s vision was blocked by oil on the windshield.<\/p>\n<p>Jones apparently did not see or hear the plane, which was &#8220;basically gliding,&#8221; the coroner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;ll never be able to jog on a beach again without looking nervously over my shoulder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been beating up on me (a reporter!) the last few days for being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}