{"id":7893,"date":"2008-03-24T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T20:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2024-10-27T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:37:07","slug":"terror-on-the-road-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7893","title":{"rendered":"Terror on the road, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex … on her way to a show … has a tire explode beneath her<\/a>. !!! Thank God you’re okay!<\/p>\n

Naturally, all I can do now is think of when the brakes went while I was driving Alex’s car … and how I still thank God I’m alive when I ponder that moment of pushing through 2 lanes of traffic with no brakes<\/i> so at least I could glide to a stop near the Hollywood Bowl!<\/p>\n

The failing-brakes moment, in all its terror, was just the beginning of one of the weirdest longest funniest days of my life – a day which involved incessant Armenians, jazz hands, and e-meters, and ended with a dead body in a pool of blood and Alex and I hiding in her apartment, peeking out through the blinds at the swarm of cop cars. Welcome to Los Angeles!<\/p>\n

Multi-part story below. I still laugh out loud when I remember Alex’s shrieking voice on the other end of the phone – and then seeing her in the back seat of a cab, coming down the freeway to get me, with her damn hair-extension scrunchy bouncing around on top of her head.<\/p>\n

Part 1<\/a>
\nPart 2<\/a>
\nPart 3<\/a>
\nPart 4<\/a>
\nPart 5<\/a>
\nPart 6<\/a>
\nPart 7<\/a>
\nPart 8<\/a>
\nPart 9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex … on her way to a show … has a tire explode beneath her. !!! Thank God you’re okay! Naturally, all I can do now is think of when the brakes went while I was driving Alex’s car … … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181623,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/181623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}