{"id":166611755,"date":"2010-04-13T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=166611755"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:02:35","slug":"some-ride-on-annapolis-coverage-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=166611755","title":{"rendered":"Some Ride on Annapolis coverage [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By By CHRIS GORDON &#8211; NBC<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOn the last day of the legislative session, a large group of cyclists rode into Annapolis in a show of support for a safety bill one week after fellow cyclist Larry Bensky was killed on the road. His wife Tamara went to tell lawmakers his story.<br \/>\n&quot;Last Tuesday when he was riding his bike on an open road on a beautiful afternoon, with no oncoming traffic, someone hit him from behind at a rate of speed at which killed him instantly,&quot; she said.<br \/>\nFor five years, cyclists have been trying to get a law passed requiring motorists to give them 3 feet of passing distance.<br \/>\n&quot;You know if that law was in place and that driver knew that that law was in place and followed it, my husband would be here,&quot; Bensky said.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local-beat\/Sex-Offenders-Cyclists-Drunken-Drivers-Considere-on-Legislatures-Last-Day-90707134.html\">https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local-beat\/Sex-Offenders-Cyclists-Drunken-Drivers-Considere-on-Legislatures-Last-Day-90707134.html<\/a><br \/>\nVideo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local-beat\/Maryland_Lawmakers_Wrap-Up_Legislative_Session_Washington_DC.html\">https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local-beat\/Maryland_Lawmakers_Wrap-Up_Legislative_Session_Washington_DC.html<\/a><br \/>\n[Yours truly is seen in the group &quot;riding into Annapolis&quot; in lime green.]oldId.20100413090235113<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By By CHRIS GORDON &#8211; NBC &#8230; On the last day of the legislative session, a large group of cyclists rode into Annapolis in a show of support for a safety bill one week after fellow cyclist Larry Bensky was killed on the road. His wife Tamara went to tell lawmakers his story. &quot;Last Tuesday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=166611755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Ride on Annapolis coverage [video]&#8220;<\/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-166611755","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\/166611755","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=166611755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166611755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166611755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166611755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166611755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}