{"id":3023,"date":"2006-03-21T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:14:16","slug":"post-dispatch-embraces-exceedingly-arbitrary-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/21\/post-dispatch-embraces-exceedingly-arbitrary-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Dispatch Embraces Exceedingly Arbitrary Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stcharles\/story\/B9DB7A4CB2E5A101862571370028D5B8?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Subdivision&#8217;s 17 mph speed limit marks life in slow lane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Road signs in Heritage of Hawk Ridge make some drivers in the subdivision do a double take, and that&#8217;s just what developers wanted.<\/p>\n<p>The posted speed limit in the retirement development is 17 mph.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s so novel that it warrants a story in the paper even though it&#8217;s not a legally-enforceable limit.  It&#8217;s as much a novelty sign as the Trumpet Parking Only sign my wife hangs in her office&#8211;but the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> writes the story anyway, trying to convey that it&#8217;s a neat idea and an attention-getter, and the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> has by now gotten the attention of innumerable aldermen, councilmen, and perhaps even a selectman or two.<\/p>\n<p>And why the hell not change the speed limits to some fool off-five number <i>to get attention<\/i> of motorists, most of whom will continue to drive at speeds on the five s <i>because that&#8217;s where the line on the speedometer is<\/i>.  Ah, hell, laws and rules of the road are enacted catch as catch can to bolster revenues and to respond to infrequent accidents anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> would be more consistent in lauding creativity in law enforcement that accosts and captures actual felons if they&#8217;re going to be so happy about things that ensnare normal people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subdivision&#8217;s 17 mph speed limit marks life in slow lane: Road signs in Heritage of Hawk Ridge make some drivers in the subdivision do a double take, and that&#8217;s just what developers wanted. The posted speed limit in the retirement development is 17 mph. It&#8217;s so novel that it warrants a story in the paper [&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-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","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=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18842,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/18842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}