{"id":735,"date":"2013-04-29T03:31:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T08:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2013-04-28T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T22:12:16","slug":"a-brief-return-to-the-dark-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/a-brief-return-to-the-dark-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Return to the Dark Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night this part of Texas dealt with some serious rain as a line of thunder storms made their way east.<\/p>\n<p>Of course anyone who is familiar with the Houston area knows that many of the roads tend to be built at or below sea level and simple rain can quickly turn said streets into rivers leaving cars afloat and drivers stranded.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Water-rescue-in-progress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740\" alt=\"Water rescues such as this one are a common sight when it rains in Houston due to low roads. Photo R. Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Water-rescue-in-progress-300x183.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Water-rescue-in-progress-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Water-rescue-in-progress-1024x626.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water rescues such as this one are a common sight when it rains in Houston due to low roads.<br \/>Photo R. Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So knowing that the storms were coming, and with them the increased likelihood of flooded roads, I made sure that I was tucked safely inside when the first rain drops arrived.<\/p>\n<p>With the knowledge that I was going to be riding the storm out in the comfort of the Triple B Gigaplex I decided to pass the time flipping between a NASCAR race in Richmond, VA and the new episode of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night this part of Texas dealt with some serious rain as a line of thunder storms made their way east. Of course anyone who is familiar with the Houston area knows that many of the roads tend to be built at or below sea level and simple rain can quickly turn said streets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/a-brief-return-to-the-dark-ages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Brief Return to the Dark Ages<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[88,86,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}