{"id":556,"date":"2009-02-05T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T21:14:23","slug":"dc-snow-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/02\/05\/dc-snow-job\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Snow Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life in Washington, D.C. must be great! Otherwise, the D.C. Council would surely have better things to do than passing laws <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/03\/AR2009020303636.html?hpid=sec-metro\">that require drivers to remove snow from their cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not kidding. The D.C. Council has <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dc\/2009\/02\/no_fine_for_too_much_snow.html \">&#8220;unanimously approved emergency legislation that will require drivers to remove frozen snow and ice from their vehicles.&#8221;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>But the good news is there&#8217;s no fine &#8230; yet &#8230; just a warning.  A last minute amendment eliminated the fine &#8220;until a hearing can be held and council members can study laws in other jurisdictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love &#8220;Nanny State&#8221; laws, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>D.C. Snow Job<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I am guessing D.C. is crime free,<br \/>\nAnd that cops there are bored as can be.<br \/>\nHow else to explain<br \/>\nA new law that&#8217;s insane:<br \/>\nAuto-snow is illegal debris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in Washington, D.C. must be great! Otherwise, the D.C. Council would surely have better things to do than passing laws that require drivers to remove snow from their cars. I&#8217;m not kidding. The D.C. Council has &#8220;unanimously approved emergency legislation that will require drivers to remove frozen snow and ice from their vehicles.&#8221; But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[466,471,11,465,6,7,3,132,467,470],"tags":[472,474,475,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}