{"id":7602,"date":"2016-03-17T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T14:09:22","slug":"slow-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/slow-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow way home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7603\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140410-schoolchildren-walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140410-schoolchildren-walk.jpg\" alt=\"schoolchildren in Okinawa\" width=\"1028\" height=\"671\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140410-schoolchildren-walk.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140410-schoolchildren-walk-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140410-schoolchildren-walk-1024x668.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">saw a movie yesterday written by UVA professor Leonard Shoppa,<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7605\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140408-schoolchild-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140408-schoolchild-poster.jpg\" alt=\"poster\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140408-schoolchild-poster.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140408-schoolchild-poster-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140408-schoolchild-poster-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 In Japan, 98 percent of children walk to school every day, unaccompanied by a parent.\u00a0 In the United States, just 13 percent of children walk or bike to school, and most are driven to school by a parent.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7606\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140412-child-car-poster1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140412-child-car-poster1.jpg\" alt=\"smart cae\" width=\"1028\" height=\"684\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140412-child-car-poster1.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140412-child-car-poster1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/140412-child-car-poster1-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/spinfilm.wix.com\/slowwayhome\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Way Home<\/a>\u00a0explores this divergence, examining how American families have largely given up on keeping our streets and public spaces safe enough for children, while Japanese communities have mobilized to keep their streets safe and walkable, not only for children but for everyone in society.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,24,41,42,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road","category-signs","category-traffic","category-urban-planning","category-uva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}