{"id":2462,"date":"2025-08-17T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:46:39","slug":"a-turn-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/a-turn-of-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turn of Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">As I signal to turn left, the Chevy pickup truck behind me speeds past on the right shoulder, horn blaring. The driver throws a middle-finger salute out the window and yells something that sounds like \u201cLuck you!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m going a steady 37 in a 35 mph zone. What\u2019s the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">The pickup ahead speeds up; an oncoming car suddenly whips around behind him, red and blue lights flashing, siren wailing. I smirk and make my turn. Maybe there is justice in the world after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>100-word drabble, based on an actual event.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I signal to turn left, the Chevy pickup truck behind me speeds past on the right shoulder, horn blaring. The driver throws a middle-finger salute out the window and yells something that sounds like \u201cLuck you!\u201d I\u2019m going a steady 37 in a 35 mph zone. What\u2019s the problem? The pickup ahead speeds up; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-drabble"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-Turn-of-Luck.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}