{"id":908,"date":"2009-05-12T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=345"},"modified":"2009-05-12T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:02:25","slug":"cars-and-traffic-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"cars and traffic lights…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks back I was at Cleveland’s City Hall Building and saw a “Cleveland Hall of Fame Wall” that displays portraits of Clevelanders who somehow made their mark on the world. \u00a0 For instance, Clevelander Garrett Morgan invented the first traffic light. \u00a0 And Clevelander Alexander Winton “sold the first ready-made dependable car in the U.S., circa 1898.” \u00a0 Ok, let’s take, for instance, the car. \u00a0 There is a traffic fatality every 13 minutes in America. \u00a0 This is the equivalent of a half-full airliner going down in America — every day<\/em>! \u00a0 And what about all the people who aren’t killed, but maimed for life each day. \u00a0 Then there’s car exhaust which is contibuting significantly to a global warming phenomenon that could destroy the planet… Cars have also contributed significantly to the cancer of urban sprawl, which is constantly eating away at more and more farmland, wetlands, forests… And increased mobility because of the car has contributed significantly to the break up of family and community, as people keep moving further and further from their home towns… etc. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 And we want to bail out \u00a0 <\/em>the car companies? \u00a0 Are we nuts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks back I was at Cleveland’s City Hall Building and saw a “Cleveland Hall of Fame Wall” that displays portraits of Clevelanders who somehow made their mark on the world. \u00a0 For instance, Clevelander Garrett Morgan invented the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}