{"id":8605,"date":"2011-07-18T19:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2011-07-18T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T02:01:23","slug":"good-examples-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/07\/18\/good-examples-and-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Good examples and Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odd moment that pops up and deserves a ponder.<\/p>\n<p>I come up to a cross-walk.\u00c2\u00a0 The sign is on red, &#8220;don&#8217;t walk&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Ordinarily I would go ahead and jay-walk BUT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>right behind me is a gaggle of children, being led by their school teacher or other temporary guardian.\u00c2\u00a0 Who are waiting.<\/p>\n<p>I have no choice but to be a good citizen and example and wait for the crosswalk to change.\u00c2\u00a0 So I wait.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, for a long, long time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should just walk ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 Give the children a lesson that when they get older, they&#8217;ll recognize the nuances of crossing the street &#8212; when to junk the rules.\u00c2\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t think about it except &#8212; apparently I was stalled right at the beginning of the stop mode and hence the long, long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odd moment that pops up and deserves a ponder. I come up to a cross-walk.\u00c2\u00a0 The sign is on red, &#8220;don&#8217;t walk&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Ordinarily I would go ahead and jay-walk BUT&#8230; right behind me is a gaggle of children, being led by their school teacher or other temporary guardian.\u00c2\u00a0 Who are waiting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8606,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}