{"id":116677834,"date":"2008-09-12T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=116677834"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T10:30:34","slug":"the-moment-weve-all-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=116677834","title":{"rendered":"The Moment We\u2019ve All Been Waiting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I want all of our elected officials to know we\u2019re serious about achieving our objectives. I want them constantly bombarded with our messages, from all angles. I want to make it socially and politically unacceptable for them to take any action which provides anything less than the the best facilities for bicycles and pedestrians. I want to be able to ride to work in safety. I want my kids to be able to play in the neighborhood streets in safety. I don\u2019t want my kids to be showing signs of heart disease when they\u2019re five years old, or needing a liver transplant by the time they\u2019re fifteen, all because they had no safe place to play or ride a bike. I want livable streets, and I want them now. It\u2019s largely up to us; if we educate people and pressure our politicians, we\u2019ll get our livable streets.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure of it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/googlemapsbikethere.org\/2008\/09\/11\/the-moment-weve-all-been-waiting-for\/\">https:\/\/googlemapsbikethere.org\/2008\/09\/11\/the-moment-weve-all-been-waiting-for\/<\/a>oldId.20080912103034812<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I want all of our elected officials to know we\u2019re serious about achieving our objectives. I want them constantly bombarded with our messages, from all angles. I want to make it socially and politically unacceptable for them to take any action which provides anything less than the the best facilities for bicycles and pedestrians. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=116677834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moment We\u2019ve All Been Waiting For&#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-116677834","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\/116677834","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=116677834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116677834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116677834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116677834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116677834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}