{"id":1165,"date":"2008-12-29T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2009-09-25T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T07:14:47","slug":"was-ist-los","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">Was ist los?<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, at the post office, the fellow immediately ahead of me in line was a Germanophone, wrapping a surf-board in bubble-wrap and tape, in preparation for mailing it to Germany.  A postal employee came out to examine the situation; and, when last I knew, the Germanophone was being told that the item was too large.<\/p> <p>Where does one <em>surf<\/em> in Germany?<\/p> <hr width=\"50%\" align=\"center\" \/> <p>I have complained in the past of the electronic <q>Amber Alert<\/q> signs at the sides of the highways being used to <em>preach<\/em>, as this causes people to develop a habit of ignoring them, which defeats the ostensible primary purpose of the signs.<\/p> <p>On top of that, here was the message on the signs that I saw along <abbr title=\"Interstate\">I<\/abbr>-805 and <abbr title=\"California\">CA<\/abbr>-163: <blockquote style=\"text-align: center ;\">DONT TEXT<br \/>WHILE DRIVING<br \/>JAN 1ST<\/blockquote> So, apparently, they're cool with people texting while driving for at least the rest of the month, and possibly again starting on the 2nd.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning, at the post office, the fellow immediately ahead of me in line was a Germanophone, wrapping a surf-board in bubble-wrap and tape, in preparation for mailing it to Germany. A postal employee came out to examine the situation; and, when last I knew, the Germanophone was being told that the item was too [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-personal","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}