{"id":283751,"date":"2010-02-05T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/transportation\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:39:20","slug":"change-is-a-good-thing%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283751","title":{"rendered":"Change is a Good Thing\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_324\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width:346px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324 \" title=\"photocalleyface\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/transportation\/files\/2010\/02\/photocalleyface.jpg\" alt=\"Out of the car and enjoying the Sacramento sunshine. Photo: C. Denning. \" width=\"336\" height=\"448\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of the car and enjoying the Sacramento sunshine. Photo: C. Denning. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of you may remember our <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/transportation\/2009\/11\/30\/parking-cash-outs-better-than-free-parking\/\">December 2 posting<\/a> in which I mentioned a dinner guest who drives eight blocks to work to take advantage of free parking. <strong>Well, there\u2019s good news.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw the acquaintance at an office party earlier this week. The good news is that he has started walking to work most days. <strong>He was proud of his new commute choice<\/strong> and credited the change to the persuasiveness of his housemate (who happens to work at EDF). He\u2019s getting exercise and the local air and traffic are benefitting.<\/p>\n<p>Mark one up to the power of persuasive housemates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=9gW7lRfXeow:FSJmfzv038Q:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=9gW7lRfXeow:FSJmfzv038Q:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=9gW7lRfXeow:FSJmfzv038Q:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=9gW7lRfXeow:FSJmfzv038Q:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=9gW7lRfXeow:FSJmfzv038Q:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/9gW7lRfXeow\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the car and enjoying the Sacramento sunshine. Photo: C. Denning. Some of you may remember our December 2 posting in which I mentioned a dinner guest who drives eight blocks to work to take advantage of free parking. Well, there\u2019s good news. I saw the acquaintance at an office party earlier this week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}