{"id":3267,"date":"2008-05-21T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T20:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2008-05-21T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T20:57:52","slug":"a_scooter_rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"A Scooter Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter DeLorenzo:<\/a> <\/p>\n

But I reserve particular ire for the burgeoning scooter movement that\u2019s being written about on an alarmingly frequent basis in the media with every new report of another record price for a barrel of oil. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong, because I have nothing against scooters. I like them, as a matter of fact. They can be fun, efficient and even cool in the right circumstances. But presenting scooters as a viable transportation option for the masses in this country is flat-out irresponsible.
\nLet me backup here for a second and repeat that sentence: \u201c…can be fun, efficient and even cool in the right circumstances.\u201d Guess what, folks – riding your Vespa down Woodward Avenue, Michigan Avenue or Fifth Avenue does not constitute \u201cthe right circumstances.\u201d Americans clearly watched too many Italian movies from the 60s and became enamored with the whole “sweater tied around the neck\/sunglasses on top of your head\/voluptuous girl hanging on the back of the scooter” thing, and this latest gas frenzy has started to warp their thinking, big time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter DeLorenzo:<\/a> <\/p>\n

But I reserve particular ire for the burgeoning scooter movement that\u2019s being written about on an alarmingly frequent basis in the media with every new report of another record price for a barrel of oil. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong, because I have nothing against scooters. I like them, as a matter of fact. They can be fun, efficient and even cool in the right circumstances. But presenting scooters as a viable transportation option for the masses in this country is flat-out irresponsible.
\nLet me backup here for a second and repeat that sentence: \u201c…can be fun, efficient and even cool in the right circumstances.\u201d Guess what, folks – riding your Vespa down Woodward Avenue, Michigan Avenue or Fifth Avenue does not constitute \u201cthe right circumstances.\u201d Americans clearly watched too many Italian movies from the 60s and became enamored with the whole “sweater tied around the neck\/sunglasses on top of your head\/voluptuous girl hanging on the back of the scooter” thing, and this latest gas frenzy has started to warp their thinking, big time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,39,29,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}