{"id":194640459,"date":"2011-03-03T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194640459"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:47:39","slug":"two-highways-were-having-a-drink-in-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194640459","title":{"rendered":"Two highways were having a drink in a bar &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; &quot;Putting entertainment centers in automobiles does not contribute to safe driving. When you&#8217;re trying to update your Facebook or put out a tweet, it&#8217;s a distraction.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8212; Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4su5qvo\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4su5qvo<\/a><br \/>\n-&gt; &quot;Strolling through the international Toy Fair at the Javits Center in New York City last week was like walking through the brightly painted halls of a children&#8217;s hospital &#8212; at once cheery and sad. Cheery were the shiny bikes and busy ant farms. Sad was the way the marketers made it sound like they were peddling early intervention in a box&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\nVia Streetsblog Capitol Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4fct4e6\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4fct4e6<\/a><br \/>\n-&gt; &quot;Two highways were having a drink in a bar when a piece of pink tarmac walked in. The highways dropped to the floor and cowered under the table. The pink tarmac had a drink and then left. The highways got up and resumed drinking. &#8216;Why did you guys hide from that piece of tarmac?&#8217; the bartender asked. A highway was quick to respond, &#8216;Are you kidding? That guy&#8217;s a cycle path!&#8217;&quot;<br \/>\n&#8212; Source unknown<br \/>\nfrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; &quot;Putting entertainment centers in automobiles does not contribute to safe driving. When you&#8217;re trying to update your Facebook or put out a tweet, it&#8217;s a distraction.&quot; &#8212; Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4su5qvo -&gt; &quot;Strolling through the international Toy Fair at the Javits Center in New York City last week was like walking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194640459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two highways were having a drink in a bar &#8230;&#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-194640459","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\/194640459","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=194640459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194640459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194640459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194640459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194640459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}