{"id":9,"date":"2015-08-11T20:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2015-08-12T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:20:11","slug":"u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"u-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m working from the Dubai office and I&#8217;m heading home, there is a u-turn on the highway. Yes. A u-turn. On the highway. Where the speedlimit is <del>100\u00a0<\/del>80.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/R2UCl\" target=\"_blank\">Gmaps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0since this is not too safe, there is a crash barrier (or guardrail or: please let me know the most common word for that!) at the u-turn.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague of mine told me that you can make a bet each day, whether the crash barrier is crashed that day or whether it&#8217;s alright. This blog post will start a series of pictures to see if he&#8217;s right.<a href=\"http:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-18.24.00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10\" src=\"http:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-18.24.00-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"uturn crash barrier 2015 08 11\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-18.24.00-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-18.24.00-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would say this one goes to #50%-crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Ah by the way: thanks for visiting the blog. welcome &amp; enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m working from the Dubai office and I&#8217;m heading home, there is a u-turn on the highway. Yes. A u-turn. On the highway. Where the speedlimit is 100\u00a080.\u00a0Gmaps And\u00a0since this is not too safe, there is a crash barrier (or guardrail or: please let me know the most common word for that!) at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=9\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">u-turn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,3,4,2],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrierwatch","tag-50-crashed","tag-crash-barrier","tag-highway","tag-u-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}