{"id":1088,"date":"2015-04-25T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2015-04-25T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T16:13:40","slug":"watchyer-cahdagsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2015\/04\/watchyer-cahdagsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchyer Cahdagsay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had just exited I-20 heading for Tucker. It was a warm, sunny day, and I had the windows of the VW Rabbit down. I stopped at the red light ready to take a left, when a pickup pulled up on my right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey!&#8221; the grizzled, weathered man yelled over to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey!&#8221; I yelled back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watchyer Gahdagsay?&#8221; he yelled in a thick suthern accent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watchyer Gahdagsay?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I cupped my hand to my ear. &#8220;Sorry! Can&#8217;t hear you,&#8221; I said, even though I could. I didn&#8217;t want to say, &#8220;I can&#8217;t understand you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then cocked his thumb, gesturing to the back of my car. &#8220;Watch Yer Gah Dag Say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh! What&#8217;s my car tag say!&#8221; I yelled back. &#8220;It says CARTOONS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CAR TOONS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CAR TOONS? Oh, I thought it said CAR ZOOMS!&#8221; He took his right laughing.<\/p>\n<p>(This car tag was Carol&#8217;s idea.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2015\/04\/watchyer-cahdagsay\/car2ns-car-tag\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/files\/2015\/04\/car2ns-car-tag-450x255.jpg\" alt=\"CAR2NS\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/files\/2015\/04\/car2ns-car-tag-450x255.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/files\/2015\/04\/car2ns-car-tag-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/files\/2015\/04\/car2ns-car-tag-500x284.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/files\/2015\/04\/car2ns-car-tag.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just exited I-20 heading for Tucker. It was a warm, sunny day, and I had the windows of the VW Rabbit down. I stopped at the red light ready to take a left, when a pickup pulled up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2015\/04\/watchyer-cahdagsay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}