{"id":180704673,"date":"2010-09-23T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180704673"},"modified":"2010-09-23T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:44:33","slug":"natasha-pettigrew-presente-a-promising-life-cut-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180704673","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Pettigrew Presente \u2013 A Promising Life Cut Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s very hard not to be angry about her needless and cruel death.  The time has come for us to have a frank discussion about SUVs and their place in our society.  They are dangerous to everyone else on the road, to pedestrians, to small car drivers like myself, and to bicyclists.  At the very least, the people who drive these behemoths need to rethink their reasons for driving them and join the rest of us in safer vehicles.<br \/>\nWe cannot afford to lose even one person like Natasha, not just because of what great things she might have done, but because she was undoubtedly the brightest light to her mother, her family, her friends and everyone who knew her.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[More about Natasha in the linked article.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com\/maria-allwine\/2010\/09\/22\/natasha-pettigrew-presente-a-promising-life-cut-short\/\">https:\/\/candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com\/maria-allwine\/2010\/09\/22\/natasha-pettigrew-presente-a-promising-life-cut-short\/<\/a>oldId.20100923114433906<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; It\u2019s very hard not to be angry about her needless and cruel death. The time has come for us to have a frank discussion about SUVs and their place in our society. They are dangerous to everyone else on the road, to pedestrians, to small car drivers like myself, and to bicyclists. At the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180704673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Natasha Pettigrew Presente \u2013 A Promising Life Cut Short&#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-180704673","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\/180704673","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=180704673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180704673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180704673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180704673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180704673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}