{"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 & the Verrazano bridge, this flotsam spotted. You read it without reading it & 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 & upload it at home. You look at it closely & 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\u2019t make sense, isn\u2019t WORK, but with the initial letter hidden by the rock, the rest reads ROW, so it can\u2019t really have meant WORK, at best KROW, WORK spelled backwards, & so maybe the sign didn\u2019t fall off but was discarded for bad spelling? OAD ROW, OAD ROW\u2026 how did you wind up in the Narrows? But now Nicole looks over my shoulder, she had also snapped the sign, & she has the solution: it isn\u2019t a reversed WORK it is a too-narrowly trimmed NARROWS. So a ROAD NARROWS sign winds up in the Narrows, and we still don\u2019t 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 &#038; the Verrazano bridge, this flotsam spotted. You read it without reading it &#038; 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}]}}