{"id":36,"date":"2005-06-16T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-06-16\/36"},"modified":"2005-06-16T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T06:45:30","slug":"i-know-what-flipping-the-bird-means-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-06-16\/36","title":{"rendered":"I know what flipping the bird means, but&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I pulled out into <span class='nobr'>a three<\/span>-lane (in one direction) road,\nand just as I'm pulling out, <span class='nobr'>I realize<\/span> that the car <span class='nobr'>I thought<\/span> was in the\nmiddle lane was really in the near lane. They were far enough away that my\npulling out in front of them wasn't dangerous, but it was certainly rude,\nand <span class='nobr'>I felt<\/span> bad. <span class='nobr'>I wanted<\/span> to stick my hand out the window and give some kind\nof &#8220;I'm sorry &mdash; my bad!&#8221; sign, but <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> know of any.\n<\/p><p> Is there any universally understood (at least, universal except for\nme) driver's sign for &#8220;oops, sorry&#8221;? There should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I pulled out into a three-lane (in one direction) road, and just as I'm pulling out, I realize that the car I thought was in the middle lane was really in the near lane. They were far enough away that my pulling out in front of them wasn't dangerous, but it was certainly rude, and I felt bad. I wanted to stick my hand out the window and give some kind of \"I'm sorry -- my bad!\" sign, but I don't know of any. <\/p><p> Is there any universally understood (at least, universal except for me) driver's [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}