{"id":9419,"date":"2012-12-06T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2012-12-07T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:25:49","slug":"narrows-signage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/narrows-signage\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrows Signage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On our walk this morning along the Narrows twixt 69th Street wharf &amp; the Verrazano bridge, this flotsam spotted. You read it without reading it &amp; it seems funny that a ROAD WORK sign somehow winds up on the rocks in the New York Harbor Narrows. You snap it with your iPhone &amp; upload it at home. You look at it closely &amp; what you thought read ROAD WORK has its top word abbreviated as OAD, which is not odd, just a missing initial R, but the second word suddenly doesn&#8217;t make sense, isn&#8217;t WORK, but with the initial letter hidden by the rock, the rest reads ROW, so it can&#8217;t really have meant WORK, at best KROW, WORK spelled backwards, &amp; so maybe the sign didn&#8217;t fall off but was discarded for bad spelling? OAD ROW, OAD ROW&#8230; how did you wind up in the Narrows? But now Nicole looks over my shoulder, she had also snapped the sign, &amp; she has the solution: it isn&#8217;t a reversed WORK it is a too-narrowly trimmed NARROWS. So a ROAD NARROWS sign winds up in the Narrows, and we still don&#8217;t know the why of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/OAD-ROW-e1354808822405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9420 lazyload\" title=\"OAD-ROW\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/OAD-ROW-e1354808822405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 490px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 490\/367;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our walk this morning along the Narrows twixt 69th Street wharf &amp; the Verrazano bridge, this flotsam spotted. You read it without reading it &amp; it seems funny that a ROAD WORK sign&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,108],"tags":[562],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","category-whatever","tag-nicole-peyrafitte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}