{"id":298,"date":"2003-05-29T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T00:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2003-05-29T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2003-05-30T00:53:18","slug":"the-right-map-makes-all-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/05\/the-right-map-makes-all-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"The right map makes all the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from my vacation to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Chris had never been on a driving tour of a foreign country. I told him, &#8220;You know we are going to fight over the map.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful, considerate man that he is, he said, &#8220;why? I don&#8217;t want to fight with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Trust me. Driving in a foriegn country means that you will have a fight while driving. It may mean that you fight the entire time you are driving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is a good man. We really didn&#8217;t fight that much. Yes, there were the moments of tension when the directions we were given ceased to bear any relationship to the signs posted.<\/p>\n<p>We made it through okay, and I think it is due in large part to the superior map we had. I recommend this one.<\/p>\n<p>Michelin Germany\/Austria\/Benelux\/Switzerland\/Czech Republic Atlas<br \/>\nby Michelin Travel Publications, Michelin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from my vacation to Germany. Chris had never been on a driving tour of a foreign country. I told him, &#8220;You know we are going to fight over the map.&#8221; Peaceful, considerate man that he is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/05\/the-right-map-makes-all-the-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/05\/the-right-map-makes-all-the-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}