{"id":1490,"date":"2009-01-24T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2009-01-24T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T20:17:00","slug":"an-american-view-of-australian-road-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"An american view of Australian Road signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Do not drive tiredly by yewenyi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/342153461\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/162\/342153461_2fde19e300_m.jpg\" alt=\"Do not drive tiredly\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">sign in China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I picked up an American Hitch-hiker yesterday. He disliked the signs by Australian roads that provide advice like, micro sleeps kill. Do people just drop dead on the spot from micro sleeps? It&#8217;s insidious, he said. What will then happen? Will they put up a sign like &#8220;We know you slept with a dog last night!&#8221;. (Little does he realise that I have a very literal mind.) But I liked him. He was a good fellow. He wanted to know why there were no signs saying obesity kills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><!--more-->This got me to thinking. Clearly these sign writers have limited themselves too much there. Here are some suggestions for the NSW government on better and improved signage.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">All junk food, such as fast foods, and soft drinks should have warning signs like Obesity Kills or sugar rots.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">All religious organisations should have signs like Holy Wars are Killers, or Not taking medicines results in shorter life, and suicide bomings are murder!.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I have not spent too much time thinking up new topics. Fell free to add any of your own in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up an American Hitch-hiker yesterday. He disliked the signs by Australian roads that provide advice like, micro sleeps[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[184,1716,1735,2318,2588,3113,3517],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-american","tag-hitch-hiker","tag-holy-wars-are-killers","tag-micro-sleep","tag-obesity-kills","tag-road-sign","tag-sugar-rots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}