{"id":1197,"date":"2009-10-21T11:07:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/street_sign_hula_hoop\/"},"modified":"2009-10-21T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:07:29","slug":"street_sign_hula_hoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/street_sign_hula_hoop.html","title":{"rendered":"Street sign hula-hoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream journalists do not break up their lines to weep, laugh or jeer. Even when the question is ridiculous, they&#8217;re devoted to their version of a call-and-response pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/transportation\/411253_gettingthere19.html\">It&#8217;s in the PI<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;What is the significance of the pedestrian crossing sign with the circle?<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<p>Eric Widstrand, city traffic engineer for the Seattle Department of<br \/>\nTransportation, says the hula hoop is a sticker (which is graffiti)<br \/>\nthat has been applied to the sign to make it look like the pedestrian<br \/>\nis hula-hooping. &#8220;There is no significance to the hula-hoop sticker<br \/>\nfrom a traffic operations point-of-view. Signs with graffiti can be<br \/>\nreported by calling (206) 684-7587,&#8221; Widstrand says. (If you Google<br \/>\n&#8220;hula hoop pedestrian signs,&#8221; you&#8221;ll see the stickers are associated<br \/>\nwith a band called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stringcheeseincident.com\/\">The String Cheese Incident<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"streetsignhula.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/streetsignhula.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"178\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream journalists do not break up their lines to weep, laugh or jeer. Even when the question is ridiculous, they&#8217;re devoted to their version of a call-and-response pattern. Exhibit A: (It&#8217;s in the PI) Question: &nbsp;What is the significance of the pedestrian crossing sign with the circle? Answer: Eric Widstrand, city traffic engineer for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}