{"id":3150,"date":"2018-02-18T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/speaktherights.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2018-02-18T00:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T00:23:56","slug":"50-years-50-days-day-22-long-road-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midwestfootballwriter.com\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"50 years in 50 days  Day 22  The Long Road Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear wife, Carrie, and I were traveling South on Indiana Highway 446 heading to Highway 50.\u00a0 We were just a few miles South of Monroe Reservoir.\u00a0 As we hurtled down the road, I saw a car off the road to my left off the East side of the highway.\u00a0 Carrie did not see the car.\u00a0 I put on my brakes, looked at her, and told her I saw car back there in peril.\u00a0 We went back to help.<\/p>\n<p>We turned around and found a young man from Seymour who was coming home from work.\u00a0 He had been run off the road by a careless driver passing another car.<\/p>\n<p>When I went past the sight, I swallowed real hard.\u00a0 I thought he was okay.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Twenty-seven years ago I stopped to help a motorist in peril.\u00a0 That young man did not make it through the day.\u00a0 It is something that came back to me today.\u00a0 It was awful.<\/p>\n<p>This young man today was okay.\u00a0 Carrie and I waited until the authorities came by and took it from there.\u00a0 The boy was from Jackson County and we have some familiar acquaintances.\u00a0 That always helps.<\/p>\n<p>While we were on 446 waiting for the police to come, it started snowing.\u00a0 We thought it looked nice.\u00a0 Little did we know we would have to drive home from Jackson County to Washington County to Harrison County in the worst road conditions we have seen all year.\u00a0 It was awful!<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;we lived to tell the story.\u00a0 I am glad the young man we helped today on 446 was okay.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking the rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Danny Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear wife, Carrie, and I were traveling South on Indiana Highway 446 heading to Highway 50.\u00a0 We were just a few miles South of Monroe Reservoir.\u00a0 As we hurtled down the road, I saw a car off the road to my left off the East side of the highway.\u00a0 Carrie did not see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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