{"id":329,"date":"2011-09-18T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-09-18T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:00:21","slug":"spookiness-on-the-405-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/09\/18\/spookiness-on-the-405-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Spookiness on the 405&#8230; Or not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by reader\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/steve-gray\">Steve Gray<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong> was driving to the Valley on the 405. Going up the mild grade from the L.A. basin, my car died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> few days later, I was driving the same route, and the car died in exactly the same place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It<\/strong> at first seemed like an unbelievable coincidence, and maybe just a little spooky, but I soon found out the problem was simply an overheating radiator. Once I thought about it, I realized it took a definite amount of time for the engine to get hot enough to stall from the time and place I left, pretty much guaranteeing it would die in the same place each time. So in the end, no magic, nothing supernatural, just mundane mechanical problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to the Valley on the 405. Going up the mild grade from the L.A. basin, my car died.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, I was driving the same route, and the car died in exactly the same place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[773,774,376,775],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-773","tag-car-overheating","tag-radiator","tag-steve-gray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}