{"id":83,"date":"2005-08-03T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T02:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2005-08-04T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T15:25:36","slug":"83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/83\/","title":{"rendered":"GhostCycle &#8212; Bicycle awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, broken, beat-up bikes entirely painted with white primer appeared tied to select Seattle street lights with signs on them that read &#8220;a cyclist was struck here&#8221;.&nbsp; It is a move by an anonymous group to promote bike awareness to car drivers.&nbsp; Each GhostCycle has a story behind it posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostcycle.org\/\">GhostCycle.org<\/a>.&nbsp; This is a really good and hopefully effective idea.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve personally almost been hit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostcycle.org\/gs\/2.html\">location #2<\/a>, 8th Ave NW &#038; Leary Way NW.&nbsp; That intersection is particularily bad.&nbsp; Drivers turning right on red from northbound Leary to 8th frequently don&#8217;t look left for legal crossers: The result is typically <em>BOOM!<\/em>&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/235063_ghostbikes03.html\">Seattle PI reports<\/a> that the Seattle Transportation Department and Seattle Police Department are not in any hurry to remove the GhostCycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, broken, beat-up bikes entirely painted with white primer appeared tied to select Seattle street lights with signs on them that read &#8220;a cyclist was struck here&#8221;.&nbsp; It is a move by an anonymous group to promote bike awareness to car drivers.&nbsp; Each GhostCycle has a story behind it posted on GhostCycle.org.&nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}