{"id":165689883,"date":"2010-04-02T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165689883"},"modified":"2010-04-02T16:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:58:03","slug":"the-american-way-of-treating-cyclists-comes-to-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165689883","title":{"rendered":"The American way of treating cyclists comes to Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American driving a rented car in Copenhagen hits a cyclists who had the right of way. &quot;According to the Danish newspaper BT, the police have said that the American woman wasn&#8217;t used to watching for cyclists and, after the accident, couldn&#8217;t understand that it was her fault.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;American Express, through a collection agency, has been hassling Helle K\u00fchl for $3106.41 &#8211; about 16,000 Danish kroner &#8211; for the damages to the car.<br \/>\nHelle K\u00fchl said to BT newspaper: &quot;This is completely insane. I&#8217;m an innocent victim and now they want me to pay 16,000 kroner because I got run over. This is an Americanization of the situation&quot;.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.copenhagenize.com\/2010\/03\/amex-demands-money-danish-cyclist.html\">https:\/\/www.copenhagenize.com\/2010\/03\/amex-demands-money-danish-cyclist.html<\/a>oldId.20100402165803544<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American driving a rented car in Copenhagen hits a cyclists who had the right of way. &quot;According to the Danish newspaper BT, the police have said that the American woman wasn&#8217;t used to watching for cyclists and, after the accident, couldn&#8217;t understand that it was her fault.&quot; &quot;American Express, through a collection agency, has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165689883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The American way of treating cyclists comes to Copenhagen&#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-165689883","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\/165689883","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=165689883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165689883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165689883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165689883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165689883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}