{"id":13244,"date":"2014-01-21T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2014-01-21T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:05:18","slug":"cars-dont-kill-people-hit-and-run-drivers-kill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/cars-dont-kill-people-hit-and-run-drivers-kill-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars Don&#8217;t Kill People; Hit-and-Run Drivers Kill People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, more objects are becoming murderous:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/police-seek-pickup-after-man-is-killed-in-hit-and\/article_0c3c71d3-1d5f-58bf-a02f-2289489ecc5a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Police seek pickup after man, 80, is killed in hit-and-run near Hillsboro<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An 80-year-old man was struck and killed this morning near Hillsboro and authorities are searching for the pickup believed to have struck him before driving away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So guns aren&#8217;t the only self-activating agents of human destruction any more.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it&#8217;s not passive voice, which is poor writing.  On the other hand, ascribing actions to objects is worse than obscuring agency through passive voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, more objects are becoming murderous: Police seek pickup after man, 80, is killed in hit-and-run near Hillsboro An 80-year-old man was struck and killed this morning near Hillsboro and authorities are searching for the pickup believed to have struck him before driving away. So guns aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13246,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}