{"id":204,"date":"2014-08-04T23:27:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-08-04T23:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:27:03","slug":"could-have-been-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Could Have Been Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/windshield_axe-300x189.png\" alt=\"windshield_axe\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/windshield_axe-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/windshield_axe.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;ve always been fond of understatement, and I&#8217;m known a certain laconic insouciance, so I was impressed by the spokesperson of the Massachusetts State Police, who recently, in reference to an <a href=\"http:\/\/bostinno.streetwise.co\/2014\/07\/30\/axe-flies-through-windshield-lands-in-car-on-i-95-topsfield-ma-picture\/\">axe that fell off a truck on I-95 and lodged in someone&#8217;s windshield<\/a>, that it &#8220;could have been worse&#8221;.\u00a0 Now, the phrase &#8220;it could have been worse&#8221; is sort of pointless when you stop to think of it because yes, there is always some way to make any situation, no matter how disastrous, slightly worse.<\/p>\n<p>But to say that a situation that started with an axe flying through a windshield and ended with a passenger being a bit shaken up might have gone more badly is going the extra mile.\u00a0 I mean, what if two axes had lodged in that poor person&#8217;s windshield?\u00a0 Imagine how shaken the passenger would have been.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s just off the top of my head.\u00a0 I could probably come up with a few other ways things could have ended up worse, given a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fond of understatement, and I&#8217;m known a certain laconic insouciance, so I was impressed by the spokesperson of the Massachusetts State Police, who recently, in reference to an axe that fell off a truck on I-95 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=204\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-3i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}