{"id":708,"date":"2011-05-02T09:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2011-05-02T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:25:39","slug":"ask-a-pliceman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2011\/ask-a-pliceman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask A P&#8217;liceman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was Will Hay who popularised the notion of added value timekeeping and navigational services from the forces of law and order. This doesn&#8217;t always work. <\/p>\n<p>On Barbados recently, we were trying without much success to find Fisher Ponds Great House, a widely-recommended ex plantation house, now dining experience. This was not well signposted, and although we knew we were probably less than a mile away, we were getting progressively more lost.<\/p>\n<p>Deciding to swallow my male pride, I spotted a police car heading towards us, and flagged it down. My request for directions drew an unusual reply: &#8220;sorry sir, I&#8217;m looking for that myself&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately at this point Tonto rode to the rescue, in the form of a young lad on a bicycle, who when asked did know the way. So I followed the lad, and the cop followed us. At least, he did up to the point where he saw a sign and took the initiative. We followed the youngster, who directed us to the proper gate and earned $2. We were amused to see the policeman waiting at the locked back gate.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to know the way, don&#8217;t ask a p&#8217;liceman &#8211; find a bright lad on a bike!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<\/p>\n<p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Beachy%20Head%20Dr,Bel%20Air,Barbados%4013.114490%2C-59.447627&#038;z=10'>Beachy Head Dr,Bel Air,Barbados<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was Will Hay who popularised the notion of added value timekeeping and navigational services from the forces of law and order. This doesn&#8217;t always work. On Barbados recently, we were trying without much success to find Fisher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2011\/ask-a-pliceman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}