{"id":13112,"date":"2017-11-16T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T09:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=13112"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:56:29","slug":"zebra-crossing-in-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/zebra-crossing-in-kathmandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebra Crossing&#8230;in Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They say you should look the streets and traffic to get a sense for how a country is doing and what a country is all about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does the following video of the challenges I faced crossing a road a few days ago in Kathmandu say about Nepal, our country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Zebra Crossing...In Kathmandu\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNsk2M2I0m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, some people in China and Iceland appear to have found <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/how-would-kathmandu-drivers-react-i-wonder-if\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a solution to that<\/a>! But anticipating pedestrians at zebra crossings (crosswalks) as a driver really is NOT rocket science as <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/to-yield-or-not-to-yield-that-isnt-the-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City display<\/a> every day. I can vouch for that from my year in the city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say you should look at the streets and traffic to get a sense for how a country is doing and what it is all about!<\/p>\n<p>What does a video of the challenges I faced crossing a road in Kathmandu say about Nepal, our country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"They say you should look the streets and traffic to get a sense for how a country is doing and what a country is all about! What does a video of my attempt to cross a road in #Kathmandu say about #Nepal, our country?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152],"tags":[322,441,153,144],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kathmandu-mustang-nepal","tag-kathmandu-driving","tag-kathmandu-traffic","tag-nepal-traffic","tag-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/yield-to-pedestrians-on-zebra-crossing-VII-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-3pu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}