{"id":208496636,"date":"2011-08-11T03:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208496636"},"modified":"2011-08-11T03:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:43:56","slug":"blaming-the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208496636","title":{"rendered":"Blaming The Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog.net by Angie Schmitt<br \/>\nPicture this: A pedestrian is standing on the curb, waiting for the light to change. The light changes, and the pedestrian steps out into the crosswalk and begins crossing the street. Before the pedestrian can reach he other side, a motorist runs the red light and hits the pedestrian. The pedestrian survives, but has sustained some injuries, and is transported to the hospital.<br \/>\nPolice report that the pedestrian had been walking \u201ctoo fast,\u201d and hit the car.<br \/>\nThe media dutifully reports this fact. Outraged by this incident, a letter to the editor suggests that \u201cthe only solution\u201d to this problem is to require pedestrians to be licensed and insured.<br \/>\nDoes that sound far-fetched? Of course it does. That would never happen.<br \/>\nBut suppose that, instead of a pedestrian, we are talking about a collision between a motorist and a cyclist. Does that sound so far-fetched now?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2011\/08\/10\/blaming-the-victim\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2011\/08\/10\/blaming-the-victim\/<\/a>oldId.20110811034356831<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog.net by Angie Schmitt Picture this: A pedestrian is standing on the curb, waiting for the light to change. The light changes, and the pedestrian steps out into the crosswalk and begins crossing the street. Before the pedestrian can reach he other side, a motorist runs the red light and hits the pedestrian. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208496636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blaming The Victim&#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-208496636","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\/208496636","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=208496636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208496636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208496636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208496636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208496636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}