{"id":114863437,"date":"2008-08-22T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=114863437"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T10:30:37","slug":"i-had-a-really-neat-one-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=114863437","title":{"rendered":"I had a really neat one today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[From Bike Forums:]<br \/>\nWhile riding thru a downtown area, with very light traffic. I was in the right hand lane of a 4 lane street, about 4&#8242; off the car doors. A young (considering my 62) woman came roaring up behind me, layed on the horn, and yelled something profane at me as she passed. I almost yelled back, but she went by too quickly.<br \/>\nThe really cool part, was that she failed to recognize the bicycle cop next to her in the other lane, waiting to turn left&#8230;.<br \/>\nHe flipped on his go fast lights, and siren, (color me surprised!)and pulled her over about a block down the street, when she caught the next red &#8211; and then stopped me too as I rode by. He just wanted my name and phone number as a witness, to add to her summons for aggressive driving&#8230;..<br \/>\nWe do have a fair sized contingent of bicycle cops in the town where I frequently ride, see them on the trails, parks, and downtown areas frequently. They always wave, and exchange pleasantries.<br \/>\nThat had to be the coolest thing I ever saw happen!!!!!!!<br \/>\nI sure hope I get to go to court!!!!!!!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showpost.php?p=7319351&amp;postcount=2\">https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showpost.php?p=7319351&amp;postcount=2<\/a>oldId.20080822103037961<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From Bike Forums:] While riding thru a downtown area, with very light traffic. I was in the right hand lane of a 4 lane street, about 4&#8242; off the car doors. A young (considering my 62) woman came roaring up behind me, layed on the horn, and yelled something profane at me as she passed. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=114863437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I had a really neat one today.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114863437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114863437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114863437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114863437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114863437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114863437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114863437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}