{"id":9411,"date":"2013-08-29T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:01:01","slug":"augustseptember-2013-httpwww-canyoncountryzephyr-com20130801take-it-or-leave-it-stiles-road-rules-43-confessions-and-complaints-of-a-lifelong-jaywalker-by-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/29\/augustseptember-2013-httpwww-canyoncountryzephyr-com20130801take-it-or-leave-it-stiles-road-rules-43-confessions-and-complaints-of-a-lifelong-jaywalker-by-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(August\/September 2013) Take it or Leave it: STILES\u2019 ROAD RULES #43, \u2018CONFESSIONS AND COMPLAINTS OF A LIFELONG JAYWALKER\u2019\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong>&#8220;Herb Ringer drove a succession of Ford cars and trucks over a period of 60 years; by his own estimate, he covered about a million and a half miles and not once, did he ever run over anybody. Or at least anybody who didn\u2019t deserve to be run over. And yet, if there was ever anyone worthy of being run over by a fast-moving automobile, it\u2019s me. As long, that is,\u00a0 as everyone plays by the rules of the road.<\/p>\n<p>I am, and always have been, an unhesitatingly consistent, even dedicated, jaywalker. I\u2019ve been doing the jay for decades. My wife can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve lived this long. I maintain that the shortest distance between two fixed points is a straight line (mathematicians will support me on this) and I have adhered to that rule for most of my life. I still do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-stiles-road-rules-43-confessions-and-complaints-of-a-lifelong-jaywalker-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9412\" alt=\"js-jaywalking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/js-jaywalking-225x300.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/js-jaywalking-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/js-jaywalking-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/js-jaywalking.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-stiles-road-rules-43-confessions-and-complaints-of-a-lifelong-jaywalker-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-stiles-road-rules-43-confessions-and-complaints-of-a-lifelong-jaywalker-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Herb Ringer drove a succession of Ford cars and trucks over a period of 60 years; by his own estimate, he covered about a million and a half miles and not once, did he ever run over anybody. Or at least anybody who didn\u2019t deserve to be run over. And yet, if there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}