{"id":310,"date":"2005-03-19T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/03\/19\/ah_spring_when_a_young_mans_fancy_turns_to_friggin_potholes\/"},"modified":"2005-03-19T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2005-03-19T08:59:03","slug":"ah_spring_when_a_young_mans_fancy_turns_to_friggin_potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/03\/19\/ah_spring_when_a_young_mans_fancy_turns_to_friggin_potholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, spring, when a young man’s fancy turns to friggin’ potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s obvious that Sam Roberts is a Montrealer<\/a>, and there’s no metaphorical or philosophical meaning to the lyric “and there’s no road that’s not a hard road<\/a> to travel on.”
\nTrue Montrealers are familiar with our annual pothole festival (Les nids de mars<\/i>, perhaps?), featuring ‘pockmarks’ in the asphalt that are measured in feet, not inches – there are several reports in various forums of people sustaining damage to wheels, rims, tires and even axles.
\nAccording to CAA Quebec, this year may be the worst yet<\/a>. As always, the CAA has a special section<\/a> on potholes, including a form for reporting new hazardous holes – so far this year, with more than 1,000 holes reported, we’re beating last year’s number by a landslide. In fact, the roads are so bad this year that the CAA site started the pothole section a month early.
\nThere is, in fact, no road that ain’t a hard road to travel on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s obvious that Sam Roberts is a Montrealer, and there’s no metaphorical or philosophical meaning to the lyric “and there’s no road that’s not a hard road to travel on.” True Montrealers are familiar with our annual pothole festival (Les nids de mars, perhaps?), featuring ‘pockmarks’ in the asphalt that are measured in feet, not … <\/p>\n

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