{"id":472,"date":"2005-07-19T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartter.net\/2005\/07\/19\/my-commute-was-different-today\/"},"modified":"2005-07-19T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T14:11:00","slug":"my-commute-was-different-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"My commute was different today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was almost late for work this morning.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t leave the house overly late, although I was out the door a minute or two later than usual; since I had built in between five and seven minutes of cushion to allow for heavy or different traffic patterns, I still had plenty of time.<\/p>\n

I ended up behind an old yellow pickup that was following a backhoe. I figured he was running traffic safety for the backhoe, but I couldn\u2019t go around them because of heavy traffic in the left lane. The yellow truck turned south when I did, and I thought, \u201cMy cushion is taking a beating this morning!\u201d He moved into the left lane, where I needed to be to make the next turn, and he was moving slowly enough to cause back up, but fast enough that I wouldn\u2019t be able to pass him before my turn. I went around him anyway, thinking I could just take the next street south to make my punch-in time.<\/p>\n

God works in funny ways sometimes.<\/p>\n

As I pulled into the turn lane for the next street, a soaking wet female German Shepherd walked in front of my vehicle. She had the last two feet of a cloth tie out attached to her collar, and there was a gentleman and his wife trying to convince her to get out of the street. I stopped, put on my hazards, and did my dog-whisperer thing. She came over to me, I held onto her tie out, and the gentleman read off the phone number on her tag. The lady who answered was not awake when I called. She had no idea her baby was out running around loose. The gentleman and his wife offered to hold the dog at the corner, since they lived right there; they figured I was probably headed for work. I thanked them, got back in, and continued on. Clocked in on time, too.<\/p>\n

If I had been patient like I have been trying to do lately, I would not have been there to help the dog.<\/p>\n

God works in funny ways sometimes, using you in ways you don\u2019t realize.<\/p>\n

I hope God uses you today for someone else\u2019s needs. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was almost late for work this morning. I didn\u2019t leave the house overly late, although I was out the door a minute or two later than usual; since I had built in between five and seven minutes of cushion to allow for heavy or different traffic patterns, I still had plenty of time. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}