{"id":1384,"date":"2010-06-05T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/06\/05\/sat-evening-no-txting-whl-drving\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T02:49:00","slug":"sat-evening-no-txting-whl-drving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/06\/05\/sat-evening-no-txting-whl-drving\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat evening – no txting whl drving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t Yesterday I was driving to work and saw a road sign warning me not to txt while driving.. The funny thing is, the sign made me want to txt right back and say ‘ok’.. I didn’t think much of it until this morning on our way to lacrosse I saw five more of these signs warning against txting while driving.. these said “it’s the law”.\u00a0 I was shocked.. what law ? when ? iane explained that as of June 1st Vermont made it illegal to text while driving.. <\/p>\n

Now.. I have to confess that I have texted while driving once or twice in the past years.. though I stopped when passengers looked at me like I was on crack. Occasionally I still check email at stop signs… (is that considered texting ?).. but mostly just talk on the phone while driving.<\/p>\n

The whole law thing got me thinking.. I’m all for making the roads safer.. and lowering distractions..\u00a0 I often think of Sam’s accident and what if anything could have been done to prevent that… <\/p>\n

… but when’s it make sense to legislate what makes sense ? Will there be a la banning phone use in cars ? Could it become illegal to eat in the car.. ? .. or to put on make up .. ?\u00a0 Do we have to spell out every dumb thing you can’t do
I’m not sure what I think here ..\u00a0\u00a0 ? <\/p>\n

Nite folks…. let me know what you think..\u00a0 Nite sam
-me<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I was driving to work and saw a road sign warning me not to txt while driving.. The funny thing is, the sign made me want to txt right back and say ‘ok’.. I didn’t think much of it until this morning on our way to lacrosse I saw five more of these signs … Continue reading Sat evening – no txting whl drving<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}