{"id":148393210,"date":"2009-09-14T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=148393210"},"modified":"2009-09-14T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:20:10","slug":"family-defies-no-bike-policy-at-maple-avenue-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=148393210","title":{"rendered":"Family defies no-bike policy at Maple Avenue Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nMarino and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, left for school by bicycle on Wednesday morning, as they often do in good weather, despite a phone call placed to students\u2019 homes by school officials, asking parents not to allow students to walk or ride bikes to school.<br \/>\nAfter a cold reception on Wednesday, local transportation advocates are rallying around the family, and plan to accompany the pair to school today in a bid to bolster calls for a policy change.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cThe policy, when originally put in place, was put in place because of the location of the building,\u201d White said. \u201cThe rights of individuals to ride their bikes on Route 9 is their decision.\u201d<br \/>\nRoute 9 is designated by the New York State Department of Transportation as a bike route.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/14\/news\/doc4aada71020507442523775.txt\">https:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/14\/news\/doc4aada71020507442523775.txt<\/a>oldId.20090914122010434<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Marino and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, left for school by bicycle on Wednesday morning, as they often do in good weather, despite a phone call placed to students\u2019 homes by school officials, asking parents not to allow students to walk or ride bikes to school. After a cold reception on Wednesday, local transportation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=148393210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family defies no-bike policy at Maple Avenue Middle School&#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-148393210","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\/148393210","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=148393210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148393210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148393210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148393210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148393210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}