{"id":14949,"date":"2015-02-26T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:20:02","slug":"stand-aside-for-the-smartphone-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14949","title":{"rendered":"Stand aside for the smartphone generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So that much we know. What I have noticed over the past few years is something different, but possibly related: the reluctance of pedestrians to engage in negotiation for right of way. Time was, in this most self-deprecating and pointlessly apologetic of Europe\u2019s cities that collision detection was default behaviour for pavement-dwellers. Older readers may remember a sketch in the BBC\u2019s The Fast Show where \u2018Indecisive Dave\u2019 spent so long in trying to negotiate passage through a doorway with another person that he eventually just waved to his friends, said \u2018See you later\u2019 and went home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thestack.com\/smartphone-distracted-walking-collision-220215\">Stand aside for the smartphone generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that much we know. What I have noticed over the past few years is something different, but possibly related: the reluctance of pedestrians to engage in negotiation for right of way. Time was, in this most self-deprecating and pointlessly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[436,734],"class_list":["post-14949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-smartphones","tag-survey-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14950,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions\/14950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}