{"id":457,"date":"2011-12-20T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:00:01","slug":"trucks-just-want-to-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/12\/20\/trucks-just-want-to-have-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucks Just Want to Have Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog,\u00a0Paula Lauterbach<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/strong>\u00a0have had my truck for about 4 years. \u00a0Sometimes I have needed to add\u00a0water to the radiator, but the interior temp\u00a0gauge\u00a0never rose above the\u00a0halfway mark.<\/p>\n

In<\/strong>\u00a0mid July 2011, I drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas\u00a0(Remember…JULY) to attend a conference of atheists, skeptics,\u00a0free thinkers and the like. \u00a0I brought water in case something\u00a0happened because of the heat, but I had no problems.<\/p>\n

Then<\/strong>\u00a0yesterday (July 24), I drove a much shorter distance to Orange\u00a0County to see a friend speak at a Christian Church and answer\u00a0questions about what it means to be a non-believer. \u00a0Very nice talk.<\/p>\n

Within<\/strong>\u00a0five minutes of leaving the venue, my “check\u00a0gauges” light buzzed\u00a0loudly and my temp\u00a0gauge\u00a0was all the way over to the red right area. \u00a0I pulled over ASAP and used all the water I had for Vegas. \u00a0It made it\u00a0to the restaurant I was going to next (and then a gas station for\u00a0more).<\/p>\n

Now<\/strong>\u00a0my truck seems ok. \u00a0But I thought it was funny it was all fine and\u00a0dandy traveling to Vegas to be near heathens and then had an issue\u00a0after visiting a church!<\/p>\n

[EDITOR:<\/strong> If this doesn’t sound like perfect confirmation bias to reinforce my preference of Vegas over church, I don’t know what does.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had my truck for about 4 years. Sometimes I have needed to add water to the radiator, but the interior temp gauge never rose above the halfway mark.<\/p>\n

In mid July 2011, I drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (Remember…JULY) to attend a conference of atheists, skeptics, free thinkers and the like. I brought water in case something happened because of the heat, but I had no problems.<\/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":[1990,1991,395,1992,38,1993,1994,376,1123],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-church","tag-heat","tag-heathens","tag-july","tag-las-vegas","tag-orange-county","tag-paula-lauterbach","tag-radiator","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}