{"id":246,"date":"2007-07-27T23:37:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T03:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/246"},"modified":"2007-07-27T23:37:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T03:37:29","slug":"humid-out-no-just-lots-of-lawyers-drooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/humid-out-no-just-lots-of-lawyers-drooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Humid Out? No, Just Lots of Lawyers Drooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a storm drain cover goes through someone&#8217;s windshield with spectacular effect, and spectacular <a href=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/bonzai-fba\/Globe_Photo\/2007\/07\/27\/1185539612_3836-1.jpg\">photos<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The result is a day-long traffic jam with 4-hour delays on Route 128.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that the guy lived through it.<\/p>\n<p>Then you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/city_region\/breaking_news\/2007\/07\/storm_grate_cra.html\">read this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other motorists have complained in recent days to MassHighway about loose storm grates in that section of Route 128, which is under construction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the first one that&#8217;s popped off,&#8221; said Lieutenant Eric Anderson, a State Police spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And suddenly Boston gets damp with lawyer drool.\u00c2\u00a0 Who wouldn&#8217;t want that case?\u00c2\u00a0 Invite a camera crew into the hospital, let the issue fester a while, have a few press conferences, and collect yourself a 7-digit cut of the settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a storm drain cover goes through someone&#8217;s windshield with spectacular effect, and spectacular photos.\u00c2\u00a0 The result is a day-long traffic jam with 4-hour delays on Route 128.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that the guy lived through it. Then you read this: Other motorists have complained in recent days to MassHighway about loose storm grates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}