{"id":4712,"date":"2013-11-20T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2013-11-20T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:03:15","slug":"the-night-the-lights-went-out-in-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/the-night-the-lights-went-out-in-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"The night the lights went out in Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the lights went out on November 17, I happened to be setting out from the north end of town to the south end.<br \/>\nAs most of us know, during a power outage, motorists are to treat any controlled intersection as a four-way stop. As I travelled south on Bathurst Street, I was pleased to see that everyone treated the intersections of Wellington Street and then Kennedy Street appropriately.<br \/>\nAt Henderson Drive, I had to turn left. I stopped, put on my turn signal, a moved forward in to the intersection with the way clear. Sadly, four cars in a row, travelling north, ignored the intersection and drove right through without stopping.<br \/>\nOne vehicle even flashed their lights at me, as if to say \u201cI am going through.\u201d<br \/>\nOur community is based in part on common decency, unless I missed the memo about the rule changes. Stay safe out there and treat each other well; even in darkness.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDavid Mendrek<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the lights went out on November 17, I happened to be setting out from the north end of town to the south end. As most of us know, during a power outage, motorists are to treat any controlled intersection as a four-way stop. As I travelled south on Bathurst Street, I was pleased to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}