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When you’re driving down the road at midnight in minus-minus-freezing degree weather, driving to pick up your daughter from school (yes) where the bus full of debate team members, in from the State Meet in Fabulous Kokomo, will soon be landing, and it’s dark and frigid and you’re barely awake and all of a sudden a pretty huge bottle rocket<\/span><\/strong> shoots up in the sky and explodes from the side of the road just ahead….<\/p>\n

…yeah, that’s startling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you’re driving down the road at midnight in minus-minus-freezing degree weather, driving to pick up your daughter from school (yes) where the bus full of debate team members, in from the State Meet in Fabulous Kokomo, will soon be landing, and it’s dark and frigid and you’re barely awake and all of a sudden…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nYou know what's startling? - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/you-know-whats-startling.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You know what's startling? 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