{"id":12265,"date":"2012-03-19T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2016-04-05T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:52:10","slug":"drive-car-water-gps-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/03\/19\/drive-car-water-gps-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, I read about someone who blindly obeys his car&#8217;s GPS and ends up under water.   Here&#8217;s the latest incident, involving <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/glanceview\/220476\/tourists-try-to-drive-to-island.glance\"> common sense-challenged Japanese tourists who try to drive to an island.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The GPS<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If your car&#8217;s GPS tells you, &#8220;Go,&#8221;<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s water ahead, you should know<br \/>\nThat it&#8217;s better to park.<br \/>\nCheck your map.  Find an ark.<br \/>\nOr else gear up for driving in l&#8217;eau.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> April 5 is <a href=\"http:\/\/southcoastherald.co.za\/135490\/april-5-is-read-a-road-map-day\/\">Read A Road Map Day.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, I read about someone who blindly obeys his car&#8217;s GPS and ends up under water. Here&#8217;s the latest incident, involving common sense-challenged Japanese tourists who try to drive to an island. Limerick Ode To The GPS By Madeleine Begun Kane If your car&#8217;s GPS tells you, &#8220;Go,&#8221; But there&#8217;s water ahead, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,12,42,1524],"tags":[1550,2090,327,221,2703,2705,2702,5012,4768,4769,2704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36885,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions\/36885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}