{"id":169220927,"date":"2010-05-13T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169220927"},"modified":"2010-05-13T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:48:47","slug":"the-abusive-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169220927","title":{"rendered":"The abusive relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our dysfunctional love affair with cars is actually an abusive relationship:<br \/>\no    They keep us from being healthy by locking us up inside, unable to move around, and preventing us from directly communicating with other humans outside &#8211; we suffer in silence..<br \/>\no    Every day, they threaten to hurt, maim or kill us unless we behave the way they want us to\u2026.<br \/>\no    They take our money using all kinds of excuses and never give it back<br \/>\no    They are loud and obnoxious, making lots of aggressive noises and movements while also annoying the neighbors.<br \/>\no    They act out their bullying behaviors such as sneaking up and dangerously following their intended victims or use threatening motions such as closely passing by or cutting you off suddenly.<br \/>\no    They block you in, preventing you from moving about freely, sometimes even being forced to just sit there  &#8211; staring you down\u2026.<br \/>\no    They&#8217;re alcoholics, incessantly drinking ethanol laced gas while forcing others to breath their resulting  car farts \u2026..yuck&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; GC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dysfunctional love affair with cars is actually an abusive relationship: o They keep us from being healthy by locking us up inside, unable to move around, and preventing us from directly communicating with other humans outside &#8211; we suffer in silence.. o Every day, they threaten to hurt, maim or kill us unless we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169220927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The abusive relationship&#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-169220927","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\/169220927","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=169220927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169220927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169220927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169220927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169220927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}