{"id":229,"date":"2008-05-18T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-05-18T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T23:01:39","slug":"new-york-health-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/new-york-health-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Health &#038; Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another New York construction accident.<\/p>\n<p>The city routinely asks it&#8217;s citizens to thread by, below and through construction. <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/c\/construction_accidents\/crane_collapse_east_50th_street_nyc\/index.html?8qa&#038;scp=1-spot&#038;sq=crane&#038;st=nyt\">Cranes fall on houses<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/18\/nyregion\/18accident.html?_r=1&#038;ref=nyregion&#038;oref=slogin\">steel falls in ball fields<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/digiart2001\/2276619675\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2176\/2276619675_5668eddf46_m.jpg\" alt=\"saw by digiart2001 on flickr\" title=\"saw by digiart2001 on flickr\" \/><\/a>With fallible commuter logic we do our part by filing under half-assembled scaffolding or pinning ourselves between heavy equipment and heavy traffic. Why don&#8217;t we cross the street? Go around the block? <\/p>\n<p>I once shared the crosswalk at 9th Ave and 15th St with a 30&#8243; pavement cutter. A utility crew worked it&#8217;s way across the intersection in bursts, cutting with the light in front of cars and along side pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>Life is cheap compared to the city&#8217;s evolution and our urgent routines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another New York construction accident. The city routinely asks it&#8217;s citizens to thread by, below and through construction. Cranes fall on houses, steel falls in ball fields. With fallible commuter logic we do our part by filing under half-assembled scaffolding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/new-york-health-safety\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[359,357,159,358],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-cranes-fall","tag-heavy-equipment","tag-new-york","tag-steel-falls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2276619675_5668eddf46_m.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}