{"id":35,"date":"2008-01-18T00:51:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T08:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/traffic-in-ho-chi-minh-city\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T00:51:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T08:51:57","slug":"traffic-in-ho-chi-minh-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/traffic-in-ho-chi-minh-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in a lot of cities with crazy traffic. Boston has no lane markers on the roads and few street signs. I once thought that was bad.<\/p>\n<p>Bangkok has congestion that means traffic jams at any hour of the day or night.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow is still the only city I&#8217;ve been where I felt as a pedestrian that the cars were genuinely trying to kill me.<\/p>\n<p>But still, nothing quite prepared me for Ho Chi Minh City. Every road has an endless stream of scooters carrying 1-5 passengers. Nobody stops, ever. Traffic merges and splits in a continuous and chaotic process that feels a lot like a river. Trucks and buses ease out into traffic and the little particles flow smoothly around them. Or sometimes they don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/evIu12W7bBM\">Observe.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in a lot of cities with crazy traffic. Boston has no lane markers on the roads and few street signs. I once thought that was bad. Bangkok has congestion that means traffic jams at any hour of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}