{"id":190832979,"date":"2011-01-18T17:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190832979"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:09:39","slug":"quote-of-the-day-jan-morris-on-motorcades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190832979","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Jan Morris on Motorcades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Cap&#8217;n Transit<br \/>\nFrom <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=z2UIa6C6s2gC&amp;pg=PA7&amp;lpg=PA7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coast to Coat: A Journey Across 1950s America<\/a><\/i> by Jan Morris, originally known as <i>As I Saw the U.S.A.<\/i> by James Morris, about motorcades in Manhattan:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>And there in the recesses of the grandest car can be seen the distinguished visitor, opera singer, or diplomat or bronzed explorer, shamefully delighted at being able to ignore the traffic rules.  I rode in one such a cavalcade, and found that the psychological effect can be disturbing.  A mild little man sharing my car was soon hurling vicious abuse at the less agile of the pedestrians, and the wife of the distinguished visitor fainted.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes me wonder: when almost all drivers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/category\/issues-campaigns\/traffic-justice\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are able to ignore<\/a> the laws against killing pedestrians and cyclists, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2009\/09\/21\/unsuspecting-drivers-caught-zooming-past-staten-island-school\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismiss all enforcement efforts<\/a> as &#8220;revenue generation,&#8221; what are the psychological effects?<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5862444008740250372-897931491777022693?l=capntransit.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/capntransit.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/quote-of-day-jan-morris-on-motorcades.html\">https:\/\/capntransit.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/quote-of-day-jan-morris-on-motorcades.html<\/a>oldId.20110118170939887<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Cap&#8217;n Transit From Coast to Coat: A Journey Across 1950s America by Jan Morris, originally known as As I Saw the U.S.A. by James Morris, about motorcades in Manhattan: And there in the recesses of the grandest car can be seen the distinguished visitor, opera singer, or diplomat or bronzed explorer, shamefully delighted at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190832979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote of the Day: Jan Morris on Motorcades&#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-190832979","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\/190832979","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=190832979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190832979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190832979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190832979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190832979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}