{"id":46,"date":"2005-02-21T22:59:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T04:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-02-21T22:59:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T04:59:47","slug":"he-was-in-a-hurry-to-get-to-his-oceanfront-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/he-was-in-a-hurry-to-get-to-his-oceanfront-property\/","title":{"rendered":"He was in a hurry to get to his oceanfront property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Arizona has jumped up a few notches in my book. <\/p>\n<p>From  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/0217waterrescue17.html\">azcentral.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office will invoke the state&#8217;s &#8220;stupid motorist law&#8221; for the first time, after a Cave Creek man drove around traffic barricades and tried to cross a flooded street last week in his Hummer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is the part that&#8217;s most puzzling to me:<\/p>\n<p><i>If he is found guilty of the charge in Cave Creek Municipal Court, he will be prosecuted under the state&#8217;s stupid motorist law, which was passed in 1995 and requires drivers to reimburse the state for the cost of rescues.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken them 10 years to find a motorist stupid enough to prosecute? You&#8217;ve gotta be kidding me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Arizona has jumped up a few notches in my book. From azcentral.com: The Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office will invoke the state&#8217;s &#8220;stupid motorist law&#8221; for the first time, after a Cave Creek man drove around traffic barricades and tried to cross a flooded street last week in his Hummer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}