{"id":373,"date":"2013-02-09T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=373"},"modified":"2021-12-06T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:45:13","slug":"dirt-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2013\/02\/09\/dirt-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/707\/files\/2013\/02\/Dirt-Roads.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-374\" title=\"Dirt-Roads\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/707\/files\/2013\/02\/Dirt-Roads-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2013\/02\/Dirt-Roads-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2013\/02\/Dirt-Roads.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Before I left the US I shared the following statistic many times: In 2004, only 5% of the roads in My Country were paved. That\u2019s the latest I knew and I didn\u2019t know what to expect when I got here.<\/p>\n<p>From what I\u2019ve seen around town, it looks like that percentage has gone way up since then. (But then again, I\u2019m in town, and out of town it\u2019s likely a whole different story.) Around here, the main roads are paved and the little roads are dirt. Think about where you live in the US. Now imagine that all the roads that have a speed limit of 25 mph are dirt roads whereas all the roads that have a speed limit higher than that are paved. I think that that should give you a general idea of what the road situation has been in my experience so far. That means that while traveling somewhere you stay on the paved roads until you get to the \u201csubdivision,\u201d and then you take dirt roads the rest of the way. Also, the paved roads that I\u2019ve been on so far have been in amazingly good condition (maybe it has something to do with them not freezing and thawing each year?), whereas the dirt roads aren\u2019t nearly so nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left the US I shared the following statistic many times: In 2004, only 5% of the roads in My Country were paved. That\u2019s the latest I knew and I didn\u2019t know what to expect when I got here. From what I\u2019ve seen around town, it looks like that percentage has gone way up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}