{"id":894,"date":"2004-02-28T19:53:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-29T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2004-02-28T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-29T00:53:36","slug":"fake-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/28\/fake-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/27\/nyregion\/27BUTT.html?ex=1078462800&#038;en=39bb50fe4af084ea&#038;ei=5062&#038;partner=GOOGLE\" target=\"_blank\">For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nFor years, at thousands of New York City intersections, well-worn push buttons have offered harried walkers a rare promise of control over their pedestrian lives. The signs mounted above explained their purpose:<\/p>\n<p>To Cross Street<br \/>\nPush Button<br \/>\nWait for Walk Signal<br \/>\nDept. of Transportation <\/i><\/p>\n<p>And another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/yupsicle.typepad.com\/amandicon\/2004\/02\/kitchen_tip.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pushing all the wrong buttons<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s not a bad habit &#8212; pressing the pedestrian crosswalk buttons to make it to the other side &#8212; but for years people in downtown San Mateo have been pushing them for no good reason.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button For years, at thousands of New York City intersections, well-worn push buttons have offered harried walkers a rare promise of control over their pedestrian lives. The signs mounted above explained their purpose: To Cross Street Push Button Wait for Walk Signal Dept. of Transportation And another&#8230; Pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}