{"id":12237,"date":"2018-08-24T05:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2018-08-17T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:04:55","slug":"speed-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12237","title":{"rendered":"Speed Bumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 700px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-12237-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1547.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1547.m4v\">http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1547.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Russian word for \u201cspeed bump\u201d is: &#8220;lexhashchii politseiskii.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It literally means \u201clying down policeman.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thought this was pretty funny Russian humor, which is often directed at the absurdity of the bureaucracy, until an English passenger on the cruise told me they uses the same phrase in the UK. It&#8217;s still funny but might be indicative of the Americans lack of humor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian word for \u201cspeed bump\u201d is: &#8220;lexhashchii politseiskii.&#8221; It literally means \u201clying down policeman.\u201d I thought this was pretty funny Russian humor, which is often directed at the absurdity of the bureaucracy, until an English passenger on the cruise told me they uses the same phrase in the UK. It&#8217;s still funny but might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[402,401],"tags":[104,398],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-russia","tag-humor","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12241,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/12241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}