{"id":111,"date":"2014-05-22T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2014-05-21T00:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T00:21:16","slug":"irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Irony!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/iron.jpg\" alt=\"iron\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/iron.jpg 225w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/iron-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>So I got a speeding ticket today, and I discovered upon arriving home that my certificate of completion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=108\">defensive driving course<\/a> had arrived.\u00a0 Obviously, you have failed to design a proper driver safety course, National Safety Institute.\u00a0 Ironically, had I taken the course one week later, it would have neatly expunged all the points on my license I just picked up, but since it has been years since I last got a ticket, it did me no good on that score (though clearly, I should get a refund of my course fee, since it didn&#8217;t take).\u00a0 As an author, I try to live these bits of irony whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2014\/may\/19\/edward-st-aubyn-wins-wodehouse-prize\">this is pretty ironic, too<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got a speeding ticket today, and I discovered upon arriving home that my certificate of completion of the defensive driving course had arrived.\u00a0 Obviously, you have failed to design a proper driver safety course, National Safety Institute.\u00a0 Ironically, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4qgvH-irony","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}