{"id":4387,"date":"2020-12-10T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2020-12-10T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:13:59","slug":"the-roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/12\/10\/the-roundabout\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roundabout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are on a holiday in Greece. Jim is at the wheel and I am navigating our return to Athens from Marathon. The roads are frantic and the drivers insane. We did not arrange for a GPS in the rental car, which was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly we find ourselves at a roundabout.  Jim asks tersely, \u201cWhich exit do I take?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlow down so I can read the signs,\u201d I bark back. \u201cIs that upside-down Greek \u201cy\u201d an \u201cL\u201d in English?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meaning of the expression \u201cIt\u2019s all Greek to me\u201d makes sense now.<\/p>\n<p>Six circumnavigations later, we\u2019re on our way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Janice Siderius<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are on a holiday in Greece. Jim is at the wheel and I am navigating our return to Athens from Marathon. The roads are frantic and the drivers insane. We did not arrange for a GPS in the rental car, which was a mistake. Suddenly we find ourselves at a roundabout. Jim asks tersely, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9671,9673,5077,2374,3302,620,1404,8490,41,3798,7240,8929,5426,2742,9672,5917,9670,7602,5576],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-athens","tag-circumnavigation","tag-drivers","tag-english","tag-exit","tag-gps","tag-greece","tag-greek","tag-guest-contributor","tag-holiday","tag-insane","tag-janice-siderius","tag-marathon","tag-mistake","tag-rental-car","tag-roads","tag-roundabout","tag-signs","tag-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}