{"id":8260,"date":"2011-11-30T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/new-york-city-launches-curbside-haiku-program-promoting-pedestrian-safety\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T05:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:33:55","slug":"new-york-city-launches-curbside-haiku-program-promoting-pedestrian-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/new-york-city-launches-curbside-haiku-program-promoting-pedestrian-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Launches \u201cCurbside Haiku\u201d Program Promoting Pedestrian Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is launching a new way to preach pedestrian safety: through the art of Haiku. The city will post hundreds of Haikus around the city as part of its new \u201cCurbside Haiku\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each three line poem (following the five-seven-five syllable format) is accompanied by a thematic graphic representing its content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of the poems and graphics were created by New York artist John Morse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Travelers hitting up the Big Apple should expect to see the signs popping up over the next couple of weeks. For a sneak peak, check out a full write-up on the program at <a href=\"http:\/\/transportationnation.org\/2011\/11\/29\/nyc-dot-uses-haiku-with-graphics-to-tame-city-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TransportationNation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyisajoke\/5217078170\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gary McCabe <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is launching a new way to preach pedestrian safety: through the art of Haiku. The city will post hundreds of Haikus around the city as part of its new \u201cCurbside Haiku\u201d program. &nbsp; Each three line poem (following the five-seven-five syllable format) is accompanied by a thematic graphic representing its content. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897699,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/98897699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}