{"id":1550,"date":"2026-01-13T03:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:55:57","slug":"proliferation-of-lights-in-jaipur-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/proliferation-of-lights-in-jaipur-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Proliferation of Lights in Jaipur, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, India \u2014 forever fascinating: colorful, cacophonous, kaleidoscopic, captivating.<\/p>\n<p>But really, do you think it&#8217;s a good idea to camouflage the traffic signals on a busy highway with an array of similarly colored and sized lights?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a traffic jam on the same street.  Probably unrelated to the camouflaged lights&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1556\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-jpg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"850\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-300x398.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592-850x1129.jpg 850w, https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wp-17718797875934245113741393376592.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic Jam in Jaipur, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camouflaging the traffic lights.  Genius&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4,62,36,102,79,67],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postcards","tag-india","tag-jaipur","tag-travel","tag-travel-photography","tag-79","tag-67"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}