{"id":296,"date":"2014-03-02T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/?p=296"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T01:45:00","slug":"detour-for-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/detour-for-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Detour for Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/detour-pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-297\" alt=\"Road Closed\" src=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/detour-pic-300x119.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/detour-pic-300x119.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/detour-pic-1024x407.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/detour-pic-500x198.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/detour-pic.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I saw the extent of the fire,\u00a0I understood\u00a0that Park Avenue would have to be closed.\u00a0It was, for about a three-block stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Many people who live off of Park&#8211;and others who are local enough to know the\u00a0route&#8211;were forced for several days to detour through\u00a0some\u00a0usually-quiet neighborhoods.\u00a0 Quite a few of those travelers (probably taking advice from their cell phone navigation) found themselves lost, making the same block over and over until they solved the puzzle.\u00a0 I can admit I had to run the Whittington back-cut twice, myself, the first time out.<\/p>\n<p>I have little doubt the residents of those less-traveled streets, like those who live on my own block, were a little surprised at the upsurge in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to report Central and Park are back open this evening.\u00a0 Thanks to the City for keeping motorists safe during the fire and subsequent demolition at the Majestic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I saw the extent of the fire,\u00a0I understood\u00a0that Park Avenue would have to be closed.\u00a0It was, for about a three-block stretch. Many people who live off of Park&#8211;and others who are local enough to know the\u00a0route&#8211;were forced for several &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/detour-for-safety\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}