{"id":218289,"date":"2013-11-21T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123371751"},"modified":"2013-11-21T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:54:20","slug":"good-advice-hit-something-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218289","title":{"rendered":"Good advice: \u2018Hit something soft\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123371751\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/051005-F-0000L-002.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It could have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p>As my family sport utility vehicle slid sideways in a snow storm, I remembered the words of my high school driving instructor: &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to crash, aim for something soft.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But, there was nothing soft to the right side of Highway 115 just outside of Ca\u00f1on City, Colo., and I wasn&#8217;t having much luck aiming. There was a snowplow to my right and two trucks in front of me that had veered into my lane to avoid hitting a car in front of them. I broke right, missed the plow, fishtailed and then gained control just in time to see I was headed for a drainage pipe.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123371751\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}