{"id":21487,"date":"2009-02-24T22:38:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T06:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=973"},"modified":"2016-09-11T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:29:59","slug":"circumventing-the-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/circumventing-the-ghetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumventing the Ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forget where I was in September, but there was one city where I asked my GPS to take me to a grocery store and when I got there, I discovered that it was in a rather unsavoury part of town. I was very nervous and realised that software can&#8217;t protect you from taking a bad off ramp.<\/p>\n<p>This was further evidenced tonight when I asked Google Maps to plot my drive from work to a downtown hotel where I will be meeting my friend tomorrow. It gladly obliged, helpfully telling me to follow Main and turn left at East Hastings. *cue in the horror movie music*<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am finally going to see downtown Vancouver tomorrow. And I&#8217;m driving there. At rush hour. My options were a forty-five minute transit ride from work to the hotel and a two hour bus ride home, or a potentially two hour rush hour drive and forty-five minute drive home. I decided that with what&#8217;s been going on in broad daylight lately, taking an unfamiliar transit route in the dark wasn&#8217;t something I wanted to do. Nor is going through the ghetto, even if it&#8217;ll supposedly shave ten minutes off my drive.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck finding parking!<\/p>\n<p>(All this intrepidness will be worth it for a sushi dinner with a friend I haven&#8217;t seen in six months!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forget where I was in September, but there was one city where I asked my GPS to take me to a grocery store and when I got there, I discovered that it was in a rather unsavoury part of town. I was very nervous and realised that software can&#8217;t protect you from taking a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,5,1375,9,3,759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-surrey","category-tech","category-travel","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}