{"id":4850,"date":"2026-01-30T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:06:37","slug":"the-drive-home-with-len-for-january-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/?p=4850","title":{"rendered":"The Drive Home With Len For January 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/proudly-canada-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/proudly-canada-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/proudly-canada.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SOCAN-2026-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SOCAN-2026-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SOCAN-2026.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>LIFE&#8217;S SHORT\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Len Jeffrey<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It seems like only moments ago I was born into this amazing place called Earth. I&#8217;m an insect and I fly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">around hills and valleys with the sun on my face. The wind carries me past grassy, flower-covered<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">fields and through thick forests with trees reaching towards the sky. Will the wonders I see ever cease?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Up ahead I see something. They&#8217;re large objects and they speed past me. One after the other whizzes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">by. I know that I am a bug of some kind but I can&#8217;t remember what those fast moving things are<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">called. I&#8217;ll get a closer look at the next one that approaches. Here it comes. Now I know! They<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">are called cars and they are driven by humans. And I am a&#8230;a&#8230;<strong>gnat<\/strong>&#8211;<b> <\/b><i><b>SPLAT!!<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4850-1\" autoplay preload=\"auto\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rec_01_30_2026_0.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rec_01_30_2026_0.mp3\">http:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rec_01_30_2026_0.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE&#8217;S SHORT\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Len Jeffrey It seems like only moments ago I was born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oshawarocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}