{"id":861,"date":"2011-07-13T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T02:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kljcharters.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/13\/road-to-nowhere\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T02:11:53","slug":"road-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kljcharters.com\/blog\/road-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6793<\/p>\n<p><em>Erewhon<\/em>, an 1872 novel by Samuel Butler, is a satire of Victorian English society. The title is an anagram of the word \u201cnowhere,\u201d written backwards with two transposed letters.<\/p>\n<p>Which may not seem to have anything to do with this photo, taken with an iPhone in Arlington, Virginia. 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