{"id":707,"date":"2008-01-29T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-01-29\/707"},"modified":"2008-01-29T00:50:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:50:33","slug":"odd-bridge-loopy-road-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-01-29\/707","title":{"rendered":"Odd Bridge Loopy Road Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='043906' href=\"\/i\/JEF_043906.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_043906_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"A loop-de-loop-de-loop -- an elevated road\/bridge loops two full times as it descends a steep hill, in Naze, on Amami-ooshima, an island in southern Japan\"\nid=\"i043906\"\ntitle=\"A loop-de-loop-de-loop -- an elevated road\/bridge loops two full times as it descends a steep hill, in Naze, on Amami-ooshima, an island in southern Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 38mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>60 sec, f\/9, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_043906.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_043906.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Dizzying Heights<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>While heading to the airport at the end of <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2008-01-06\/680\">our trip to Amami<\/a> (<a\nhref=\"\/blog\/category\/japan\/amami-islands\/\">more Amami\nposts<\/a>), <span class='nobr'>I noticed<\/span> this amazing &#8220;bridge ramp thingy&#8221; (I'm not really\nsure what to call it) while driving through the city of Naze, off in a\ndirection we weren't heading.<\/p>\n\n<p>This detailed map (courtesy of Google) shows that it makes two complete revolutions:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;q=28.364093,129.499870&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=28.364927,129.502357&amp;spn=0.001246,0.002492&amp;z=19&amp;om=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Freaky-Loop-Map.gif\" width=\"700\" height=\"444\"\nid=\"iFreaky_Loop_Map\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Google Maps View<\/span>\n<br\/>camera position marked with green arrow in the lower left\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I've never quite seen anything like it. <span class='nobr'>It's definitely<\/span> on my list to check out next time we go to Amami.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While heading to the airport at the end of our trip to Amami (more Amami posts), I noticed this amazing \"bridge ramp thingy\" (I'm not really sure what to call it) while driving through the city of Naze, off in a direction we weren't heading.<\/p> <p>This detailed map (courtesy of Google) shows that it makes two complete revolutions:<\/p> <p>I've never quite seen anything like it. It's definitely on my list to check out next time we go to Amami.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}