{"id":331854721,"date":"2015-07-08T21:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=331854721"},"modified":"2015-07-08T21:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:52:01","slug":"heres-why-we-should-not-ignore-self-proclaimed-cyclist-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=331854721","title":{"rendered":"HERE\u2019S WHY WE SHOULD NOT IGNORE SELF-PROCLAIMED \u201cCYCLIST HATERS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cian Ginty<br \/>\nCOMMENT &#038; ANALYSIS: Media figures painting all \u201ccyclists\u201d as criminals is like an incitement to hatred which polarises some motorists. This clearly does not add to road safety. It should not be tolerated by any right-thinking person, regardless of what mode of transport they happen to use.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe idea that only \u201cbad\u201d cyclists are in danger is nonsense. A polarised motorist stuck behind the best-behaved bicycle users on a narrow road or street, or while making a right hand turn etc, will not distinguish between law breaking and law abiding bicycle users.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"N4FaHzb4bI\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/irishcycle.com\/2015\/07\/05\/heres-why-we-should-not-ignore-self-proclaimed-cyclist-haters\/\">Here&#8217;s why we should not ignore self-proclaimed &#8220;cyclist haters&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Here&#8217;s why we should not ignore self-proclaimed &#8220;cyclist haters&#8221;&#8221; &#8212; IrishCycle.com\" src=\"https:\/\/irishcycle.com\/2015\/07\/05\/heres-why-we-should-not-ignore-self-proclaimed-cyclist-haters\/embed\/#?secret=sNnPgqgTGD#?secret=N4FaHzb4bI\" data-secret=\"N4FaHzb4bI\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cian Ginty COMMENT &#038; ANALYSIS: Media figures painting all \u201ccyclists\u201d as criminals is like an incitement to hatred which polarises some motorists. This clearly does not add to road safety. It should not be tolerated by any right-thinking person, regardless of what mode of transport they happen to use. &#8230; The idea that only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=331854721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HERE\u2019S WHY WE SHOULD NOT IGNORE SELF-PROCLAIMED \u201cCYCLIST HATERS\u201d&#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-331854721","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\/331854721","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=331854721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331854721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331854721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331854721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331854721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}