{"id":2266,"date":"2009-12-31T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2009-12-31T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:45:38","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/tweet-of-the-day-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day: Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radley Balko is in transit across Ohio. He’s finding it less than entertaining:<\/p>\n

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radleybalko<\/a>: driving thru ohio. motto: nothing much to look at, but you’re gonna be here awhile.<\/p>\n

radleybalko<\/a>: ohio. new motto: yep. you’re still here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t driven in every state, although I’ve managed to visit most of ’em east of the Mississippi, and Ohio is always the state I hate driving through<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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. . . Ohio must be located in a time warp, because the drive from Cincinnati to Toledo seemed to take weeks, not the three or so hours it should have done . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In either direction<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The drive south along the I-75 went relatively smoothly, at least once we got out of the rutted road section between the bridge and the Ohio state line. I don’t know if Michigan deliberately leaves that stretch of road in poor condition to discourage locals from escaping or if it’s a full employment scheme for alignment shops at the exits. Either way, it’s almost the worst stretch of road we encountered during the entire trip.<\/p>\n

As mentioned before, the I-75 between Toledo and Cincinnati seems to exist in a universe where time has no meaning. Entire geological epochs seemed to pass as we endlessly drove towards the intermediate towns. I’m certain that the continents re-arranged themselves twice in the time it seemed to take between Lima and Dayton.<\/p>\n

Driving through Cincinnati at 6:00 p.m. on a Saturday is rather like a combination of riding the Wild Mouse, taking a speed-reading test, and riding through a buffalo stampede. The very worst drivers, of course, had Ontario license plates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, not having driven in any state to the left of the Mississippi River (aside from California), I’m sure that some of those square-ish territories could challenge Ohio for the title. You know, those places that only ever appear in the “Odd News” section, like Missouransas, Oklarado, Wyotana, South Iobraska, and Nevazona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radley Balko is in transit across Ohio. He’s finding it less than entertaining: radleybalko: driving thru ohio. motto: nothing much to look at, but you’re gonna be here awhile. radleybalko: ohio. new motto: yep. you’re still here. I haven’t driven in every state, although I’ve managed to visit most of ’em east of the Mississippi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[73,13],"tags":[111,450,202],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-ohio","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}