{"id":1978,"date":"2009-04-30T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:20:47","slug":"what-is-it-with-people-driving-into-our-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"What is it with people driving into our hospitals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No photos here, just ponderings. With the news that someone has driven into the ER entrance of St. Alexius tonight, it bears mention that this isn&#8217;t the first time someone parked a vehicle <b>inside<\/b> the east entrance of one of Bismarck&#8217;s hospitals. An elderly lady turned Medcenter One&#8217;s coffee shop into a drive-thru a couple of years ago. Coincidence? You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting note: according to the Bismarck Tribune story, the driver of the vehicle lodged in the ER of St. Alexius was &#8220;arrested for driving under the influence of prescription drugs and taken to Medcenter One&#8230;&#8221; Apparently St. A&#8217;s must have been too busy dealing with a black S-10 in <i>their<\/i> emergency room to treat the guy.<\/p>\n<p>Life sure is interesting, ain&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s going to be rather unpleasant in a few hours too, for this guy at least. I&#8217;ve stayed up way too late reading the last 176 pages of a Ted Bell novel and nursing a sore throat with medication and chicken soup. Not a good way to prepare for an early morning Thursday. I&#8217;d better get some rest, so I don&#8217;t doze off and drive into a building or something. We don&#8217;t have any untouched hospitals now, so perhaps I&#8217;d have to settle for a clinic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No photos here, just ponderings. With the news that someone has driven into the ER entrance of St. Alexius tonight, it bears mention that this isn&#8217;t the first time someone parked a vehicle inside the east entrance of one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}