{"id":246,"date":"2003-01-10T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=246"},"modified":"2003-01-10T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T13:54:00","slug":"what-were-they-thinking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/246-what-were-they-thinking-2","title":{"rendered":"What were they thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was standing on the corner at Islington and Bloor, waiting for the light to change on my way to the office, and I notice a little sign above the crosswalk signal button.<\/p>\n<p>It reads: <font COLOR=\"#FFAA00\"><b>Push button for audible signal only<\/b><\/font>, and there&#8217;s a nice little pictograph of a blind person walking with a cane.<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=+2 COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><b>BUT<\/b>&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The sign is NOT printed in Braille!<\/p>\n<hr WIDTH=75%>\nIn other news: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/stories\/2003\/01\/08\/Consumers\/alcohol_030108\">Drinking three times a week helps the heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was standing on the corner at Islington and Bloor, waiting for the light to change on my way to the office, and I notice a little sign above the crosswalk signal button. It reads: Push button for audible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/246-what-were-they-thinking-2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}