{"id":1308,"date":"2008-09-25T07:54:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2008-09-25T07:54:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:54:36","slug":"blinker-1-deer-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/blinker-1-deer-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinker 1; Deer 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I hit a deer on Sumneytown Pike, just outside of Harleysville. I was fine, just shaken up, the car is a little damaged, the deer got a broken leg and limped off into the woods after chilling out next to my car for a little while, he probably won’t last long (I am sad about this, poor critter). I waited almost an hour for the police to show up, and finally called them back only to learn that they had no cars available and that I didn’t really have to file a report if no one was hurt and I could drive the car. I headed home.<\/p>\n

This morning I surveyed the damage. You always panic with these things, knowing there is probably a ton more damage you don’t see, but in this case I think I lucked out. I was alert enough to slow down when I saw the deer so there is no damage to the body of the car, just the headlight. The headlight still works, and although the internal of it does have a small (cosmetic?) crack I think I’ll be able to get away with just replacing the plastic cover over the light and won’t have to file a claim with the insurance company.<\/p>\n

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Can still see some deer fur in that last picture, poor critter.<\/p>\n

I was pretty upset last night, but this morning I’m thankful for about a thousand things. I am not sure I could have gotten off any better in this situation, avoiding the deer was impossible. Growing up in Maine, where you’re not a true Mainer until you hit at least 2 deer (and bring ’em home!), I learned all about how to properly handle the situation, swerving and\/or slamming on brakes can cause much worse accidents, especially with other traffic on the road, and that knowledge served me well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I hit a deer on Sumneytown Pike, just outside of Harleysville. I was fine, just shaken up, the car is a little damaged, the deer got a broken leg and limped off into the woods after chilling out next to my car for a little while, he probably won’t last long (I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}