{"id":20,"date":"2010-01-12T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:41:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:41:31","slug":"attempt-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Attempt #56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/explosion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21\" title=\"explosion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/explosion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>One simple change of direction, one stray thought, one encounter can save a life.<\/p>\n<p>I was in Baja California, Mexico, getting ready to drive back into the U.S. after a mission to Cuba. My bags were packed and loaded in my Ford Expedition to leave that afternoon. I had been writing my memoirs in Spanish, and a neighbor there in Mexico was helping me translate and compile them in English. I went to check on the manuscript and she said she was having computer problems; and that simple fact <em>saved my life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead of driving that afternoon across the border, I stayed home and waited for my writer friend to sort out my manuscript; I wanted to have it ready when I drove back. The night got late; it was past 11pm when I heard a popping sound outside. I went to my balcony to see what was going on, just in time to watch my Expedition explode in a fireball.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, I had taken it to get routine maintenance, but apparently someone at the service station added an extra part to the engine compartment. I would have been driving across the border around that time if I had not stayed. This was the 56th attempt on my life.<\/p>\n<p><em>See our <a href=\"..\/?p=41\">Media Kit<\/a> for more details, other projects, and contact information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One simple change of direction, one stray thought, one encounter can save a life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spymasterspy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}