{"id":215,"date":"2016-04-16T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulplowman.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2023-02-06T23:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T23:43:15","slug":"useless-roundabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/useless-roundabouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Roundabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this roundabout! Just look at it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/@53.6980055,-0.8826399,320m\/data=!3m1!1e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/roundabout5.jpg\" alt=\"roundabout1\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the point of that roundabout? Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->And here&#8217;s another one! Look at this one! Just look!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/@51.4723633,-3.1433432,448m\/data=!3m1!1e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/roundabout1.jpg\" alt=\"roundabout1\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why in God&#8217;s name would someone build that?<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>For what reason?<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s more. What is this crazy madness?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/@50.7831883,0.2717642,340m\/data=!3m1!1e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/roundabout2.jpg\" alt=\"roundabout2\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What insanity led to the creation of such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>Is this some kind of tax write-off scheme? Did someone say to the council: &#8220;I hear that our neighbouring county, with whom we have a long-standing heated rivalry, have built more roundabouts than us. We cannot let this stand!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s yet more irrational roundabout nonsense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/@54.4389689,-6.377516,315m\/data=!3m1!1e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/roundabout3.jpg\" alt=\"roundabout3\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When will this lunacy end?<\/p>\n<p>Is it some kind of fetish?<\/p>\n<p>Is this the result of some hilarious Chuckle-Brothers-like mix-up, like the road planners accidentally put their mug of coffee down on the plans and then had to come up with a hasty way to disguise the mess it left?<\/p>\n<p>Look! Here&#8217;s more of the same!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/@50.8876996,-1.2464005,293m\/data=!3m1!1e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/roundabout4.jpg\" alt=\"roundabout4\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We need answers!<\/p>\n<p>Is it aliens? Is the government using roundabouts to pacify civil uprising?<\/p>\n<p>WE MUST KNOW THE TRUTH!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this roundabout! Just look at it! What&#8217;s the point of that roundabout? Seriously? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulplowman.com\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}