{"id":222350809,"date":"2012-01-18T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=222350809"},"modified":"2012-01-18T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T12:06:49","slug":"nonviolent-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=222350809","title":{"rendered":"Nonviolent Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: In honor of  Martin Luther King Jr. Day.]<br \/>\n*********************************************************<br \/>\nby Ted Johnson<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut, to state what should be obvious, when you bike, you are responsible for less environmental destruction than you would be were you in a car. When you bike you are less of a participant in the politics and economics of petroleum and their violent foreign policy implications.<br \/>\nAnd then there\u2019s the mere lethality of motor vehicles. I\u2019m certainly glad that the homicidal customer currently in the shop will leave here on a bike \u2014 and not driving a one ton weapon.<br \/>\nI get to bike home now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commutebybike.com\/2012\/01\/16\/nonviolent-transportation\/\">https:\/\/www.commutebybike.com\/2012\/01\/16\/nonviolent-transportation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.] ********************************************************* by Ted Johnson &#8230; But, to state what should be obvious, when you bike, you are responsible for less environmental destruction than you would be were you in a car. When you bike you are less of a participant in the politics and economics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=222350809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonviolent Transportation&#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-222350809","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\/222350809","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=222350809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222350809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222350809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222350809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222350809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}