{"id":9,"date":"2010-01-25T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-01-11T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:17:15","slug":"the-crossing-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-crossing-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crossing Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/traffic-safety-vests.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 0px;\" title=\"traffic safety vests\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/traffic-safety-vests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>When I was in the fifth grade, I volunteered to work as a crosswalk guard at my elementary school. At that age, I saw this responsibility as momentous step in reaching maturity and adulthood. Every morning I would have to wakeup at 5 am so that I could get to school in time to don one of the <a title=\"traffic safety vests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/c-82-traffic-control-vests-clothing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">traffic safety vests<\/a> and hit the streets before the morning rush.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was quite proud of my post when I was holding it, now that I am older I recognize my naivety. Don\u2019t get me wrong, crossing guards play an important role in keeping people safe, but the position hardly carries the clout that I felt it did when I was in the fifth grade. Despite my recognition of my childhood disillusionment, I always think back to those days when I have to stop for five minutes in the morning while droves of elementary school kids pass by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in the fifth grade, I volunteered to work as a crosswalk guard at my elementary school. At that age, I saw this responsibility as momentous step in reaching maturity and adulthood. Every morning I would have to wakeup at 5 am so that I could get to school in time to don [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-safety","tag-reflective-safety-vest","tag-safety-flag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}