{"id":1541,"date":"2009-08-31T17:53:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T21:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2009-08-31T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T21:59:29","slug":"texting-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/31\/texting-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Texting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself for a large dose of libertarian outrage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/31\/technology\/31texting.html\">Texting while driving<\/a> may soon be outlawed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAn organization of state highway safety officials on Monday plans to call for a ban on texting while driving, joining a growing chorus of legislators and safety advocates  endorsing such a policy.<\/p>\n<p>The group, the Governors Highway Safety Association, whose members are appointed by state governors to lead highway safety agencies, said it adopted the policy in light of a growing body of research showing the increased crash risk posed by texting motorists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Texting?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If you text while you drive, you&#8217;re insane.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a hazard like snow, ice, and rain.<br \/>\nAnd if  govs have their way,<br \/>\nYou will soon have to say:<br \/>\n&#8220;BRB, AFK, must refrain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(If my last line needs translating, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/quick_ref\/textmessageabbreviations.asp\">chat and text message abbreviation dictionary.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/02\/12\/multi-task-madness\/\">Multi-Task Madness;<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/05\/20\/biking\/ \">Pedestrian Plea;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/12\/14\/multitasking-mania-limerick-and-haiku-prompt-2\/ \">Multitasking Mania;<\/a> and  <a href=\" http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2006\/10\/30\/contending-with-time\/\">Contending With Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself for a large dose of libertarian outrage: Texting while driving may soon be outlawed. An organization of state highway safety officials on Monday plans to call for a ban on texting while driving, joining a growing chorus of legislators and safety advocates endorsing such a policy. The group, the Governors Highway Safety Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[742,471,2,11,6,132,59],"tags":[472,874,872,867,512,876,475,870,875,868,873,871],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}