{"id":201620574,"date":"2011-05-23T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=201620574"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:42:54","slug":"five-media-myths-that-perpetuate-car-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=201620574","title":{"rendered":"Five Media Myths That Perpetuate Car Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short summary of Streetsblog New York City by Catherine Lutz<br \/>\nAmericans love their cars. (Americans may need their cars in our transit-starved and poorly planned landscape, but with mind-numbing traffic and volatile gas prices, the luster is off the chrome.)<br \/>\nTeens can\u2019t wait to grab the car keys. (It&#8217;s the adults that are fed up with schlepping their kids in an auto-centric world.)<br \/>\nThe economy depends on the auto industry. [The economy depends on people buying a diverse range of goods not sinking most of their income into one thing. ]<br \/>\nThe America car industry can return to its former glory. [ROFLMA]<br \/>\nWe can\u2019t fix the car system because poor people will suffer. (Of course, no group suffers under our current car system more than the poor,)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2011\/05\/23\/five-media-myths-that-perpetuate-car-culture\/\">https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2011\/05\/23\/five-media-myths-that-perpetuate-car-culture\/<\/a>oldId.20110523134254352<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short summary of Streetsblog New York City by Catherine Lutz Americans love their cars. (Americans may need their cars in our transit-starved and poorly planned landscape, but with mind-numbing traffic and volatile gas prices, the luster is off the chrome.) Teens can\u2019t wait to grab the car keys. (It&#8217;s the adults that are fed up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=201620574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five Media Myths That Perpetuate Car Culture&#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-201620574","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\/201620574","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=201620574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201620574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201620574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201620574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201620574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}