{"id":179,"date":"2009-12-02T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/12\/02\/091202_dangerousroads\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T14:28:57","slug":"091202_dangerousroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/12\/02\/091202_dangerousroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Simon Seeks travel blog has an interesting compilation of what it calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonseeks.com\/blog\/worlds-most-extreme-and-dangerous-roads\"><i>The world&#8217;s most extreme and dangerous roads<\/i><\/a> [Link via Twisted Sifter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TwistedSifter\">Twitter feed<\/a>]. As you might expect, most of the roads and highways are found in mountainous and\/or so-called third world locations, and I don&#8217;t doubt for a second that driving them is a harrowing experience.<\/p>\n<p>However, as <a href=\"http:\/\/sleepless.blogs.com\/george\/2009\/11\/a-prius-in-the-pit.html\">this post at Sleepless in Midland<\/a> points out, one doesn&#8217;t have to travel outside the city limits to encounter truly horrific road conditions.<\/p>\n<p>And, as far as requiring nerves of steel for responsible drivers to navigate, I would also match up any residential street within ten blocks of either Midland high school around lunch time with any of those roads in the Simon Seeks post.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonseeks.com\/blog\/worlds-most-extreme-and-dangerous-roads\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simon Seeks travel blog has an interesting compilation of what it calls The world&#8217;s most extreme and dangerous roads [Link via Twisted Sifter&#8217;s Twitter feed]. As you might expect, most of the roads and highways are found in mountainous and\/or so-called third world locations, and I don&#8217;t doubt for a second that driving them&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/12\/02\/091202_dangerousroads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dangerous Roads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-travel","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}