{"id":153578374,"date":"2009-11-13T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=153578374"},"modified":"2009-11-13T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:39:34","slug":"only-one-day-left-to-demand-safer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=153578374","title":{"rendered":"Only one day left to demand safer streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartgrowthamerica.org\/dia_templates\/t4email\/header.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\nSince I wrote you Monday, we have some exciting news to share: <strong>My team has just scheduled a meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to discuss pedestrian safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great chance to get the administration on board with addressing a glaring problem with our streets. <strong>Each month, on average, more than 400 pedestrians are killed in America &#8211; that&#8217;s roughly the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing <em>every single month!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need our meeting with Secretary LaHood to make a <em>big<\/em> impression &#8211; so we&#8217;re going to deliver our &#8220;Demand Safer Streets!&#8221; petition to him in person during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/org2.democracyinaction.org\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=Deaz8cuqjonpjVagdzNyc6yzbXuuVifZ\">Please add your name before MIDNIGHT tomorrow so we can deliver your signature<\/a> on Monday along with thousands of others we&#8217;ve already collected from people across the country.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ilana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I wrote you Monday, we have some exciting news to share: My team has just scheduled a meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to discuss pedestrian safety. It&#8217;s a great chance to get the administration on board with addressing a glaring problem with our streets. Each month, on average, more than 400 pedestrians &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=153578374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only one day left to demand safer streets&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153578374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153578374","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=153578374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153578374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153578374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153578374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153578374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}