{"id":32,"date":"2000-01-25T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2000-01-25T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2000\/01\/25\/cell-phones-and-driving\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:08:30","slug":"cell-phones-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2000\/01\/25\/cell-phones-and-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phones and Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so fed up with people saying that it should be illegal to talk on cell phones in cars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, talking on a cell phone means you only have one hand on the wheel.<\/strong> But that happens when you&#8217;re eating in the car, changing the radio station, or simply resting one of your hands somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, having a conversation on a cell phone may distract you a little.<\/strong> But so does having a conversation with your passengers. So does listening to talk radio, being tired, or simply getting lost in your own thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>We can hardly make all the other things I mentioned illegal, and cell phones are no worse. I think this furor is a thinly-veiled class issue. Those who don&#8217;t have cell phones see those who do as snobby rich people and resent them flaunting their expensive gadgets on the road.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand that feeling, but I lose my sympathy when it is taken far enough that people want to pass laws against what they don&#8217;t like without a truly compelling reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so fed up with people saying that it should be illegal to talk on cell phones in cars. Yes, talking on a cell phone means you only have one hand on the wheel. But that happens when you&#8217;re eating in the car, changing the radio station, or simply resting one of your hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}