{"id":1856,"date":"2018-12-14T06:10:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:03:51","slug":"janus-the-roman-god-of-passages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/12\/14\/janus-the-roman-god-of-passages\/","title":{"rendered":"Janus:  The Roman God of Passages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our recent Baja trip, I asked Devin Biek, one of the Janus co-founders, about the meaning of the Janus name. Devin explained that Janus was the Roman god of the road, a god that was looking to the future and to the past. That\u2019s what the Janus logo, formed of the letter J facing forward and rearward to form an M (for motorcycle) suggests.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12569\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jo-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Devin explained all of this, I remembered that somewhere I actually had a photograph of Janus. The Roman god, that is. I had taken it on a swing through Rome in 2007, and I\u2019m pretty sure it was in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12570\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/j1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/j1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/j1-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick peek at several Internet references shows Janus to be the god of passages, transitions, doorways, time, beginnings, and endings. I like the Janus name, the symbology associated with it, and the Janus motorcycle&#8230;a modern machine with vintage styling, looking to the future, and based on the past. \u00a0 It&#8217;s all very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our recent Baja trip, I asked Devin Biek, one of the Janus co-founders, about the meaning of the Janus name. Devin explained that Janus was the Roman god of the road, a god that was looking to the future and to the past. That\u2019s what the Janus logo, formed of the letter J facing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/12\/14\/janus-the-roman-god-of-passages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Janus:  The Roman God of Passages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,433,140],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-janus","category-vintage-motorcycle","tag-roman-god-janus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}