{"id":5806,"date":"2025-04-01T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:25:41","slug":"a-man-is-driving-down-a-quiet-country-road-when-he-loses-control-of-his-car-and-veers-into-a-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5806","title":{"rendered":"A man is driving down a quiet country road when he loses control of his car and veers into a ditch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is driving down a quiet country road when he loses control of his car and veers into a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated but unhurt, he walks to a nearby farmhouse and explains his predicament to the farmer.<\/p>\n<p>The farmer nods, grabs a rope, and leads his old horse to the crash site.<\/p>\n<p>Tying the rope securely to the car, the farmer calls out, \u201cPull, Zoomer, pull!\u201d The horse doesn\u2019t budge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPull, Radar, pull!\u201d the farmer shouts, but again, the horse remains still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPull, Dasher, pull!\u201d the farmer yells, but the horse stands firm.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the farmer says, \u201cPull, Dusty, pull!\u201d At this, the horse starts pulling and easily drags the car out of the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Amazed, the driver asks, \u201cWhy did you call your horse by different names?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farmer chuckles and replies, \u201cDusty is blind. If he thought he was pulling alone, he wouldn\u2019t have tried.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is driving down a quiet country road when he loses control of his car and veers into a ditch. Frustrated but unhurt, he walks to a nearby farmhouse and explains his predicament to the farmer. The farmer nods, grabs a rope, and leads his old horse to the crash site. Tying the rope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}