{"id":20,"date":"2004-02-14T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-01-20T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:04:54","slug":"my-favorite-train-wreck-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/my-favorite-train-wreck-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"My favorite train wreck tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tom Barber:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tEver notice that when a tornado strikes, &#8220;tossing mobile homes<br \/>\nabout like children&#8217;s toys,&#8221; a witness inevitably is able to<br \/>\nbuttonhole a wire service reporter within moments of emerging from<br \/>\nhis storm cellar to announce, &#8220;<strong>It sounded like a freight train!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My freight train file was swelling impressively when a prized catch<br \/>\ncame in an AP second lede writethru from Motley, Minn., where a bumbling<br \/>\ndispatcher had sent two Burlington Northern coal trains down the same<br \/>\ntrack to a head-on crash 200 yards from Andrew Paife&#8217;s home. &#8220;Paife<br \/>\ncaptured the moment for reporter Karren Mills, volunteering:<\/p>\n<p> <strong>&#8216;It sounded like a tornado<\/strong>.&#8217; &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tom Barber: Ever notice that when a tornado strikes, &#8220;tossing mobile homes about like children&#8217;s toys,&#8221; a witness inevitably is able to buttonhole a wire service reporter within moments of emerging from his storm cellar to announce, &#8220;It sounded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/my-favorite-train-wreck-tale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}