{"id":9773,"date":"2022-10-17T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","slug":"spared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9773","title":{"rendered":"SPARED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was driving my daughter Sarah to Dairy Queen about an hour ago to meet a couple of her friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the dark, in my peripheral vision, I saw a car rapidly approaching my street from the right. In a flash, a teenage girl pulled into the path of our Traverse as she made a left hand turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had not paused a second, much less come to a complete stop. She seemed to assume the street would be clear of oncoming traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hit my brakes and punched my horn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My headlights briefly gave Sarah and me a clear look at this young lady&#8217;s reaction as she zipped in front of us, narrowly avoiding getting t-boned.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I had not seen her bonehead move coming, that girl would be in the emergency room right now. No doubt about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder how often God spares us the immediate consequences of our own mistakes?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no way for us to ever know in this life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving my daughter Sarah to Dairy Queen about an hour ago to meet a couple of her friends.\u00a0 In the dark, in my peripheral vision, I saw a car rapidly approaching my street from the right. In a flash, a teenage girl pulled into the path of our Traverse as she made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}