{"id":21,"date":"2008-04-05T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/05\/a-better-left-and-right\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T22:31:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T03:31:50","slug":"a-better-left-and-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/05\/a-better-left-and-right\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Left and Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people get very confused with right and left when driving (“Turn left here. No, the other left!”) I knew a girl who wrote “left” and “right” on the ends of her windshield with a sharpie, and it worked well for her.<\/p>\n

Another solution is to use concrete terms<\/strong>, instead of abstract terms:
\n“Turn left” is “Driver-side turn”
\n“Turn right” is “Passenger-side turn”<\/p>\n

Sailors have been using the concrete terms “port” and “starboard” for centuries<\/em>, for the same reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people get very confused with right and left when driving (“Turn left here. No, the other left!”) I knew a girl who wrote “left” and “right” on the ends of her windshield with a sharpie, and it worked well for her. Another solution is to use concrete terms, instead of abstract terms: “Turn left” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-tips","category-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}