{"id":1260,"date":"2007-08-15T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/its-amazing-how-quickly-my-sympathy-can-wither\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:43:26","slug":"its-amazing-how-quickly-my-sympathy-can-wither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/its-amazing-how-quickly-my-sympathy-can-wither\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s amazing how quickly my sympathy can wither"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>You know, I used to be somewhat sympathetic to the plight of pedicab owners in the city (and I still think that they should be encouraged given the city&#8217;s pollution and congestion issues), but the idea that vehicles, simply because they&#8217;re human-powered, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/15\/pedicab-owners-protest-pending-regulation\/\">shouldn&#8217;t be subject to regulation?<\/a> Um, no.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, I could just be projecting because I almost got run over yesterday by one of these guys pulling a left turn onto sixth avenue while very much not watching for the pedestrians (read: me) who had the right of way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I used to be somewhat sympathetic to the plight of pedicab owners in the city (and I still think that they should be encouraged given the city&#8217;s pollution and congestion issues), but the idea that vehicles, simply because they&#8217;re human-powered, shouldn&#8217;t be subject to regulation? Um, no. But then again, I could just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[30,14,9],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bitching","tag-new-york-city","tag-politics-and-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-kk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}