{"id":1987,"date":"2009-07-19T05:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2009-07-19T05:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:54:18","slug":"speed-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Speed Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are driving along the interstate at a comfortable 75 mph when a car passes you going above 80.\u00a0 Behind it are two or three other cars trying to keep up.\u00a0 Without thinking about it you find yourself accelerating to keep up with this group.\u00a0 You have just been pulled into a <strong>speed vortex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_0315\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3735294734\/img_0315.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2518\/3735294734_3b252cdb71_m.jpg?resize=240%2C159\" alt=\"IMG_0315\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think Speed vortexes are caused by a subconscious urge to either compete or belong.\u00a0 The entire phenomenon needs more study.\u00a0 A speed vortex is most likely to pull in like vehicles.\u00a0 A small car speed vortex has less pull on SUVs.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been pulled into a speed vortex?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it nice to know that it now has a name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are driving along the interstate at a comfortable 75 mph when a car passes you going above 80.\u00a0 Behind it are two or three other cars trying to keep up.\u00a0 Without thinking about it you find yourself accelerating to keep up with this group.\u00a0 You have just been pulled into a speed vortex. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-w3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}