{"id":699,"date":"2010-10-28T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pintglass.org\/bren\/?p=699"},"modified":"2010-10-28T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:00:44","slug":"why-stop-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/why-stop-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Why stop there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ride my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bzo\/4972509465\/\">bicycle<\/a> to work. It&#8217;s not far. It takes maybe three minutes on day when the traffic lights aren&#8217;t going my way. <\/p>\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s not much of a ride, I still am honored nearly every day to share the road with drivers who apparently have forgotten any traffic laws they ever knew. Too many stories to tell, so I&#8217;ll just outline my favorite recurring scenario.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stopped at a stop sign at an intersection. It&#8217;s not a four way stop, just a two way stop. Meaning the cars crossing my path don&#8217;t have a stop sign. A car that should be crossing my path slows to a stop near the intersection and attempts to wave me across the road. Remember, they don&#8217;t have a stop sign. Other drivers coming up behind them aren&#8217;t expecting them to stop in the middle of the road. This is insane behavior, yet I see it almost every day. I just impatiently wave them on, then cross when it&#8217;s clear. Like a sane person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ride my bicycle to work. It&#8217;s not far. It takes maybe three minutes on day when the traffic lights aren&#8217;t going my way. Even though it&#8217;s not much of a ride, I still am honored nearly every day to share the road with drivers who apparently have forgotten any traffic laws they ever knew. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-bh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}