{"id":26933,"date":"2014-07-12T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=26933"},"modified":"2014-07-12T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T14:22:26","slug":"not-sure-which-direction-to-take-read-the-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=26933","title":{"rendered":"Not Sure Which Direction To Take?  Read the Sign."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Most Heat Moon<\/p>\n<p>So often the real world outstrips the imagination:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;Motorists on Shepard Road\u00a0 in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b478d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/topics\/places\/st-paul.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Paul<\/a>\u00a0got an obscene message from an electronic road side sign instead of the information that was supposed to warn them of a flood-related closure ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Sometime on Tuesday night, a hacker changed the message on the board near Chestnut Street to read &#8220;Local Moms Need [a man&#8217;s body part].&#8221; The vulgar message generated several calls to the city, said Kari Spreeman, a public works department spokeswoman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">full blog entry from the Star-Tribune&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/blogs\/266787901.html\">Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Most Heat Moon So often the real world outstrips the imagination: &#8220;Motorists on Shepard Road\u00a0 in\u00a0St. Paul\u00a0got an obscene message from an electronic road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=26933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Sure Which Direction To Take?  Read the Sign.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1979,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news-of-the-strange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26934,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions\/26934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}