{"id":333,"date":"2007-11-16T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=333"},"modified":"2007-11-16T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T17:20:00","slug":"people-need-to-be-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2007\/11\/16\/people-need-to-be-told\/","title":{"rendered":"People need to be told?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/tankmod.jpg\" alt=\"Unbelieveable\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>Saw this sign on the A702 heading into Penicuik yesterday. I didn&#8217;t have time to stop and take a picture then, but my perambulations took me out that way again today and I made the most of the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I find it unspeakably bizarre that people need to be told this. Isn&#8217;t it obvious? There was one of these signs roughly 30 yards before every single traffic island for maybe a mile of road.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/2037458281\/\" title=\"What does the sign say, Auntie Sam? by Ravenbait, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2121\/2037458281_4758a33a1e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"What does the sign say, Auntie Sam?\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this sign on the A702 heading into Penicuik yesterday. I didn&#8217;t have time to stop and take a picture then, but my perambulations took me out that way again today and I made the most of the opportunity. I find it unspeakably bizarre that people need to be told this. Isn&#8217;t it obvious? There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People need to be told? ~ Singularity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2007\/11\/16\/people-need-to-be-told\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People need to be told? ~ Singularity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Saw this sign on the A702 heading into Penicuik yesterday. 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