{"id":18401,"date":"2018-12-22T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=18401"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:52","slug":"ironies-and-misnomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/12\/ironies-and-misnomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony Street & Misnomer Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Long Street<\/a> in Asheville, North Carolina, is 0.2 miles (1000 feet) long.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Short Street<\/a> in New Orleans, Louisiana, is 1.6 miles (8400 feet) long.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Straight Street<\/a> in Forsyth, Georgia, heads northwest for 540 feet, then north for 360 feet, then northwest for 400 feet, then northeast for 700 feet, where it ends.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ocean Side Drive<\/a> in Florissant, Missouri, is 700 miles from the nearest (Atlantic) ocean.<\/p>\n

\u2022 La Paz Court<\/a> in Salton City, California, is named for La Paz, Bolivia — highest capital city in the world — and lies 126 feet below sea level.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hope Avenue<\/a> in Pierce, Colorado is a thousand-foot unpaved dead-end.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Destiny Drive<\/a> in Brunswick, Georgia, is a one-way street that circles around and ends up 150 steps from where it started.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1602 Happy Street<\/a> and 1922 Moody Avenue<\/a> in Mission, Texas, are next-door neighbors.<\/p>\n

\u2022 P Street<\/a> in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is the site of the city wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Trump Street<\/a> is a narrow, crooked road in Daniels, West Virginia.\u00a0 No, not that<\/em> Daniels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Long Street in Asheville, North Carolina, is 0.2 miles (1000 feet) long. \u2022 Short Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, is 1.6 miles (8400 feet) long. \u2022 Straight Street in Forsyth, Georgia, heads northwest for 540 feet, then north for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18401"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18433,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions\/18433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}