{"id":823,"date":"2024-04-19T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/?p=823"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:25:21","slug":"safer-road-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/2024\/04\/19\/safer-road-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer road walking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Charlie started this post but I (Wynette) will finish it. We were doing some road walking (albeit quite safe since very few cars came by on this tiny country road) and I thought, why not put on our high-viz gear? Can’t hurt to be a little more visible. I did not succeed in talking Charlie into donning his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mom helped me make these little hi-viz skirts before we left. She sewed the little edge for inserting elastic around the long edge. Thanks, Mom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t bring these for sunny day road walking but for putting over our dark blue raincoats on dark rainy days should we have to walk along a busy road in those conditions. So far, we haven’t needed them for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have heard that one can get fined in Spain if walking on highways without wearing something like a hi-viz vest. We’ve walked many miles on Spanish roads without one and no fines yet. But, we do have reflective tape on our backpacks and on my hiking poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie started this post but I (Wynette) will finish it. We were doing some road walking (albeit quite safe since very few cars came by on this tiny country road) and I thought, why not put on our high-viz gear? Can’t hurt to be a little more visible. I did not succeed in talking Charlie … Continue reading “Safer road walking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}