{"id":2890,"date":"2011-06-13T19:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T21:21:13","slug":"bike-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Bike Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzE-IMaegzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My sister sent me this video, she knew I&#8217;d like it. Maybe because she knew Mike Potts and I loved crashing our bikes in to stuff when we were boys. Maybe she was taunting me, knowing I am bike-less in a bike city. Maybe she wanted to remind me of the responsibility I still hold to the Push Bike Safety League.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t know the exact reason you sent it, but I do like the video very much. Thanks sis!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s an outlandish protest video from <a href=\"http:\/\/caseyneistat.com\/\">Casey Neistat<\/a>, professional viral video maker (of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/the-neistat-brothers\/index.html\"><em>Neistat Brothers<\/em> show<\/a> on HBO). In it, he films himself getting a ticket for not riding in the bike lane in New York City\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/transportationnation.org\/2011\/04\/26\/nypd-tickets-cyclists-for-not-riding-in-bike-lane\/\">an NYPD practice I brought to light on <em>Transportation Nation<\/em>,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/nypd-starts-draconian-crack-down-on-cyclists-riding-outside-their-lanes\/\">GOOD<\/a> a few months back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To demonstrate why a cyclist in NYC might need to ride outside the bike  lane, Neistat proceeds to crash into anything and everything that  blocks a bike lane from construction barricades to trucks to&#8230; Well,  just watch till the end. Johnny Knoxville would be proud. <a rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/community\/alexgoldmark\">&#8211; Alex Goldmark<\/a>, GOOD<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister sent me this video, she knew I&#8217;d like it. Maybe because she knew Mike Potts and I loved crashing our bikes in to stuff when we were boys. Maybe she was taunting me, knowing I am bike-less in a bike city. Maybe she wanted to remind me of the responsibility I still hold&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[184,310,58,309,423],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-bikes","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-nyc","tag-push-bike-safety-league","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}