{"id":438,"date":"2019-11-10T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/?p=438"},"modified":"2019-11-10T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:38:08","slug":"signal-with-your-left-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/signal-with-your-left-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal with your left arm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always felt that signalling a right turn with your left arm while cycling was silly.  The only reason the left-arm right-turn signal exists is because it&#8217;s the only arm a car driver can use.  If you can just stick an arm out pointing in the direction you&#8217;re about to go, it&#8217;s easier for everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/signal_right.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/signal_right.png 704w, https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/signal_right-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While cycling home from work, I was passing a group of people on the sidewalk right by the road as I signaled my intent to turn right, using my right arm of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I immediately received a high-five from a pedestrian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the last time I&#8217;ve signaled with my right arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/signal_right2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/signal_right2.png 704w, https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/signal_right2-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always felt that signalling a right turn with your left arm while cycling was silly. The only reason the left-arm right-turn signal exists is because it&#8217;s the only arm a car driver can use. If you can just stick an arm out pointing in the direction you&#8217;re about to go, it&#8217;s easier for everybody. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}