{"id":157,"date":"2002-02-20T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2002-02-20T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T20:55:01","slug":"to-stop-or-not-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/to-stop-or-not-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"To Stop or not to Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>So across the street from where I work is a fire station.  And, naturally, where the fire station&#8217;s driveway connects to the street, there is one of those blinking yellow lights &#8212; one which the firemen can change to a red stoplight should they need to come tearing out with sirens flashing and all that.<\/p>\n<p>In front of the light there is a line, and a sign which says &#8220;Stop here on red&#8221;.  About 50 yards further up the road, the road ends, and running perpendicular to it is a minor highway.  There&#8217;s another light at this intersection.  The light is one of those pressure sensitive ones; in other words, it doesn&#8217;t change unless there&#8217;s a car there.<\/p>\n<p>Why all the preamble?  Well, today as I came into work, there was a man parked at the line in front of the firehouse light, waiting patiently for the light up at the end of the street (again, a solid 50 yards away, if not more) to turn green.  Which of course it never did.  A very long line of cars was building up behind him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So across the street from where I work is a fire station. And, naturally, where the fire station&#8217;s driveway connects to the street, there is one of those blinking yellow lights &#8212; one which the firemen can change to a red stoplight should they need to come tearing out with sirens flashing and all that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}