{"id":6485,"date":"2011-10-19T23:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2011-10-19T23:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:26:40","slug":"rosa-parks-sadly-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rosa-parks-sadly-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Parks, Sadly Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RosaParks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RosaParks-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RosaParks\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6486\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewyorkworld.com\/2011\/10\/18\/women-ride-in-back-on-sex-segregated-brooklyn-bus-line\/\">Via<\/a> the <em>New York World<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth. But as the bus began to fill up, the men told her that she had to get up. Move to the back, they insisted.<\/p>\n<p>They were Orthodox Jews with full beards, sidecurls and long black coats, who told her that she was riding a \u201cprivate bus\u201d and a \u201cJewish bus.\u201d When she asked why she had to move, a man scolded her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf God makes a rule, you don\u2019t ask \u2018Why make the rule?\u2019\u201d he told Franchy, who rode the bus at the invitation of a New York World reporter. She then moved to the back where the other women were sitting. The driver did not intervene in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The B110 bus travels between Williamsburg and Borough Park in Brooklyn. It is open to the public, and has a route number and tall blue bus stop signs like any other city bus. But the B110 operates according to its own distinct rules. The bus line is run by a private company and serves the Hasidic communities of the two neighborhoods. To avoid physical contact between members of opposite sexes that is prohibited by Hasidic tradition, men sit in the front of the bus and women sit in the back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the New York World: On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rosa-parks-sadly-missed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,711],"tags":[738,742],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}