{"id":873,"date":"2025-03-13T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2025-03-13T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:46:40","slug":"traffic-momma-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Traffic! Momma Mia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5050.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You couldn\u2019t pay me enough to be a motor coach, or even car driver here. Traffic \u201cflows\u201d in a chaotic, reckless, game of \u201cchicken.\u201d Painted lines, when present, might as well be invisible. Every conceivable mode of transportation participating in a death defying ballet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And parking, oi! Deep in the crowded cities, we\u2019ve seen cars parked so close it looks like a crane had dropped them in the smallest niches. Our Tour Director, who lives in Rome, has had visiting friends say \u201cyou don\u2019t park your cars here, you abandon them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You couldn\u2019t pay me enough to be a motor coach, or even car driver here. Traffic \u201cflows\u201d in a chaotic, reckless, game of \u201cchicken.\u201d Painted lines, when present, might as well be invisible. Every conceivable mode of transportation participating in a death defying ballet. And parking, oi! Deep in the crowded cities, we\u2019ve seen cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-sicily-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}