{"id":79,"date":"2007-06-11T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-06-11T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:06:01","slug":"sideview-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/sideview-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sideview mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So maybe I&#8217;m just remarkably unobservant, but I discovered something recently.  While reading a book of &#8220;Imponderables&#8221; I came across an entry that had something to do with sideview mirrors on cars.  Not sure the exact connection, but it mentioned something about how the passenger side mirror was required to say &#8220;Objects in mirror are closer than they appear&#8221; but the driver&#8217;s side mirror <i>had<\/i> to be an accurate mirror.  So when I was driving to Midland this weekend, I was glancing in my mirrors (like a good driver) and realized that, in fact, objects in the passenger mirror look <i>significantly<\/i> smaller than objects in my driver&#8217;s side mirror.  I had never realized that before.  Never.  Did everybody else know that?  I always assumed that the message about objects being closer than they appear also applied to the driver&#8217;s side mirror, but they just chose to print it on one of the mirrors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So maybe I&#8217;m just remarkably unobservant, but I discovered something recently. While reading a book of &#8220;Imponderables&#8221; I came across an entry that had something to do with sideview mirrors on cars. Not sure the exact connection, but it mentioned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/sideview-mirrors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->