{"id":2363,"date":"2013-05-29T01:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2013-05-29T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:35:17","slug":"slow-and-steady-wins-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow and steady wins the race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do love this Town!<br \/>\nAbout 5 p.m. Wednesday I was travelling northward on Yonge Street toward St. John\u2019s Sideroad, and noticed something of a line-up ahead of me, just north of St. John\u2019s.<br \/>\nShortly after, when the light changed and the roadway cleared, I had a great chuckle (belly laugh, if you must know).<br \/>\nJust north of the intersection, there was a turtle (good size too) trying to navigate from the median strip, slowly \u2013 very slowly \u2013 heading west. And a policeman holding up the southbound traffic (car with lights flashing, the whole bit), to help the turtle on its way.<br \/>\nWhen I got home, still chuckling, my husband said: \u201cHow did the turtle cross the road?\u201d Answer: \u201cWith a police escort\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June Yates<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do love this Town! About 5 p.m. Wednesday I was travelling northward on Yonge Street toward St. John\u2019s Sideroad, and noticed something of a line-up ahead of me, just north of St. John\u2019s. Shortly after, when the light changed and the roadway cleared, I had a great chuckle (belly laugh, if you must know). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}