{"id":352,"date":"2011-12-19T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-12-19T00:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:16:36","slug":"haiku-signs-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/12\/19\/haiku-signs-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku signs in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-354\" title=\"averse to risk\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/files\/2011\/12\/averse-to-risk1-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" \/>In New York 12 street signs with a haiku underneath (designed by John Morse), have begun to appear. The plan is to install about 200 such signs, some in Spanish, at \u201ccrash-prone\u201dcrosswalks. They are believed to be \u2018an eye-catching way to encourage safety.\u2019 An example is a fallen bike with the caption:<\/p>\n<p><em>A sudden car door,<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Cyclist\u2019s story rewritten.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Fractured narrative<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Editor&#8217;s note<\/span>: I have no idea if these will prove effective. I hope someone is evaluating this clever idea. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/seventeen-syllable-safety-warning-signs\/\">http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/seventeen-syllable-safety-warning-signs\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/seventeen-syllable-safety-warning-signs\/\">http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/seventeen-syllable-safety-warning-signs\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/seventeen-syllable-safety-warning-signs\/\">http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/seventeen-syllable-safety-warning-signs\/<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-353\" title=\"averse to risk\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/files\/2011\/12\/averse-to-risk-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York 12 street signs with a haiku underneath (designed by John Morse), have begun to appear. The plan is to install about 200 such signs, some in Spanish, at \u201ccrash-prone\u201dcrosswalks. They are believed to be \u2018an eye-catching way to encourage safety.\u2019 An example is a fallen bike with the caption: A sudden car [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/12\/19\/haiku-signs-in-new-york\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1574,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offbeat","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}