{"id":240,"date":"2013-04-17T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:25:25","slug":"fed-ex-fractures-and-biking-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/fed-ex-fractures-and-biking-afghan-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Fed Ex, UPS, Fractures and Bringing Bicycling to Afghani Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the 40th anniversary<\/a> of Federal Express, now known as Fed Ex. Although UPS started in Seattle as a bike messenger service<\/a>, we have Fed Ex here too, as shown below, parked in a bike lane…<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, when Fed Ex trucks park in bike lanes and open their doors, their logo reads “FX”, which is also an abbreviation for “FRACTURE<\/a>“…<\/p>\n

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In more positive news today, a woman from the US is doing good things in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Her good deeds include setting up women there with bicycles<\/a>, the riding of which is still, according to Human Rights Watch, “generally considered immoral.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the 40th anniversary of Federal Express, now known as Fed Ex. Although UPS started in Seattle as a bike messenger service, we have Fed Ex here too, as shown below, parked in a bike lane… Interestingly, when Fed Ex trucks park in bike lanes and open their doors, their logo reads “FX”, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}