{"id":15496,"date":"2014-02-21T00:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15496"},"modified":"2014-02-21T00:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:56:21","slug":"do-not-pick-up-hitchhikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/do-not-pick-up-hitchhikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hitwit.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is a California highway sign on I-101 near Camp Roberts. The sign says &#8220;DO NOT PICK UP HITCH HIKERS NEXT 9 MILES&#8221;. But why? The sign is over 25 miles away from Atascadero&#8217;s State (Mental) Hospital which treats criminals. \u00a0It seems unlikely that the warning is related to that institution, and besides, there&#8217;s a law on the books which prohibits hitchhikers from thumbing rides on roads.<\/p>\n<p>According to California Vehicle Code 21957: &#8220;No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.&#8221; While \u00a0hitchhiking through California is legal, hitchhikers are expected to catch rides at truck stops or rest areas, for instance..<strong>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/highways\/hitchhikers.html\">read more<\/a><\/strong>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is a California highway sign on I-101 near Camp Roberts. The sign says &#8220;DO NOT PICK UP HITCH HIKERS NEXT 9 MILES&#8221;. But why? The sign is over 25 miles away from Atascadero&#8217;s State (Mental) Hospital which treats criminals. \u00a0It seems unlikely that the warning is related to that institution, and besides, there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}