{"id":76551,"date":"2021-01-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76551"},"modified":"2021-01-26T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:09:09","slug":"76551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76551","title":{"rendered":"Some Animals Experience More Convenience Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They&#8217;re building bridges over their roads for<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/sweden-to-build-bridges-for-reindeer-to-safely-cross-roads-and-railways\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;the reindeer to cross safely<\/a>.<\/p><p>In fact, let&#8217;s go one step farther.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s dig tunnels under the roads for raccoons to cross safely.&nbsp; And paint different colored stripes for bicycles to cross safely.&nbsp; And lower speed limits so jaywalkers can cross safely.<\/p><p>You know what?&nbsp; Why are we messing around with half-measures?&nbsp; If we&#8217;re going to do it, just do it right.<\/p><p>Ban vehicles and tear up the roads completely, so everyone and everything can cross safely.&nbsp; Because what&#8217;s more important &#8211; moving people and goods efficiently, or signaling our virtue?<\/p><p>Do it . . . for the reindeer.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, not only are &#8220;we&#8221; doing it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parleys Canyon Wildlife Overpass 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zmpuqDvp9vc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but the &#8220;we&#8221; in this case is the Utah Highway and Natural Resources departments &#8211; arguably less likely to be swayed by bizarre priorities than Texas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say what you will &#8211; it&#8217;s a fascinating watch.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re building bridges over their roads for&nbsp;the reindeer to cross safely. In fact, let&#8217;s go one step farther.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s dig tunnels under the roads for raccoons to cross safely.&nbsp; And paint different colored stripes for bicycles to cross safely.&nbsp; And lower speed limits so jaywalkers can cross safely. You know what?&nbsp; Why are we messing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76579,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76551\/revisions\/76579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}