{"id":88,"date":"2022-10-06T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:09:06","slug":"spotlight-on-whittier-blvd-s-walk-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Whittier Blvd.\u2019s walk sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I traveled to the intersection of Whittier Blvd. and Wilson Lane on behalf of The Rutabaga. I sat down with the man who tells pedestrians to Wait Before Crossing Whittier Boulevard to hear about his career, his past, and his aspirations about his role in the Whitman cluster community.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: What is your name, and what is your role here at Whittier &amp; Wilson?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: Sounds good. How did you find yourself in this position?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: Great. How long have you been in this position?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: Wow. So what would you say are your favorite and least favorite parts of your job?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: That\u2019s understandable. What advice do you have for someone pursuing this kind of role?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: Is there anything someone aspiring to be a crosswalk audio recording should know about the job?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: That\u2019s so interesting. Lastly, what do you wish you could tell all of the pedestrians that you meet every day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: Fascinating. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled to the intersection of Whittier Blvd. and Wilson Lane on behalf of The Rutabaga. I sat down with the man who tells pedestrians to Wait Before Crossing Whittier Boulevard to hear about his career, his past, and his aspirations about his role in the Whitman cluster community. Q: What is your name, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}