{"id":24,"date":"2009-05-07T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-05-07T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:40:04","slug":"another-dead-bicyclist-another-day-in-the-life-of-a-speed-addicted-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/another-dead-bicyclist-another-day-in-the-life-of-a-speed-addicted-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Another dead bicyclist, another day in the life of a speed addicted society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Noeldner is one of our local saints. He&#8217;s got a great <a href=\"http:\/\/entropicjournal.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a>. He&#8217;s one of the few thinkers out there who actually seems to understand the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and its implications for how we live &amp; organize our society.<\/p>\n<p>Today he got a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/opinion\/letters\/449784\">letter to the editor<\/a> in the Capital Times about a woman who was recently killed while, yup, JRA, violating no laws. The letter was entitled: &#8221;\u00a0Hans Noeldner: Like cyclist&#8217;s death, our way of life is a tragedy.&#8221; Exactly. \u00a0And as far as I know, the perpetrator was not charged or even ticketed.  Bicycling is now a crime punishable by death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Noeldner got a great letter to the editor about our society&#8217;s twisted priorities&#8211;speed over life&#8211;in today&#8217;s Capital Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,13,4],"tags":[16,17,3,1320,7,1319],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicyclebicyclingbicyclist","category-energy-efficiency","category-politics","category-society","tag-add-new-tag","tag-bicycle","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-madison-wisconsin-politics","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}