{"id":305509859,"date":"2014-09-06T23:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=305509859"},"modified":"2014-09-06T23:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:50:59","slug":"one-dads-twitter-photo-essay-on-his-daughters-perilous-walk-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=305509859","title":{"rendered":"One Dad\u2019s Twitter Photo Essay on His Daughter\u2019s Perilous Walk to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo who\u2019s up for a long rant\/photo-essay about kids walking to school and urban design on this fine back-to-school Thursday morning?\u201d asked Canadian author and journalist Chris Turner on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theturner\/status\/507552555648712705\">Twitter<\/a> this morning. And so began a numbered tour of the hazards encountered on his 9-year-old daughter\u2019s walk to school.<\/p>\n<p>It was partly inspired by this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yehudamoon.com\/all_comics\/2012.html\">Yehuda Moon<\/a> cartoon:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-156119\" alt=\"cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cartoon.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Turner wasn\u2019t satisfied with the cartoon\u2019s cheeky conclusion that parents are making bad decisions. \u201cToo often, these discussions blame PARENTS,\u201d he tweeted, \u201cnot URBAN DESIGN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/09\/04\/one-dads-twitter-photo-essay-on-his-daughters-perilous-walk-to-school\/\">https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/09\/04\/one-dads-twitter-photo-essay-on-his-daughters-perilous-walk-to-school\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog \u201cSo who\u2019s up for a long rant\/photo-essay about kids walking to school and urban design on this fine back-to-school Thursday morning?\u201d asked Canadian author and journalist Chris Turner on Twitter this morning. And so began a numbered tour of the hazards encountered on his 9-year-old daughter\u2019s walk to school. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=305509859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Dad\u2019s Twitter Photo Essay on His Daughter\u2019s Perilous Walk to School&#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-305509859","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\/305509859","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=305509859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305509859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305509859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305509859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305509859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}