{"id":2382,"date":"2005-06-15T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2018-06-01T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:54:16","slug":"in-a-couple-years-it-will-be-four-times-the-legal-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/15\/in-a-couple-years-it-will-be-four-times-the-legal-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Couple Years, It Will Be Four Times the Legal Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/newstalk1130.com\/cc-common\/local_news_common.html?ID=20050614133408&#038;feed=local\" target=\"_new\">drunken, registered sex offender ice cream man<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The offending driver had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, according to a New Berlin police report. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously, it was only 2.4 times the legal limit back in the &#8220;old days&#8221; when the legal limit was .10 BAC.  Now that the legal limit is .08 BAC (so that the state of Wisconsin doesn&#8217;t lose Federal highway funds, donchaknow?), the same BAC is now 3 times the limit.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as legislators pass their next compromise with MADD and lower it to .06, the same BAC will be 4 times the limit.<\/p>\n<p>So the legal limit multiplier reflects more on the current state of legislation than the actual state of drunkeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story about the drunken, registered sex offender ice cream man: The offending driver had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, according to a New Berlin police report. Previously, it was only 2.4 times the legal limit back in the &#8220;old days&#8221; when the legal limit was .10 BAC. Now that the [&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-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19961,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/19961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}