{"id":4289,"date":"2008-03-06T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2017-11-22T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T01:42:51","slug":"making-britain-satire-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/making-britain-satire-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Britain Satire-Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how some of us like to make a little <i>ad absurdum<\/i> fun about the nanny state bubble-wrapping everything for the safety of its <strike>citizens<\/strike> adult children?<\/p>\n<p>Britain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=525785&#038;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"_blank\">removing satire from our repertoire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain&#8217;s first &#8216;Safe Text&#8217; street has been created complete with padded lampposts to protect millions of mobile phone users from getting hurt in street accidents while walking and texting.<\/p>\n<p>Around one in ten careless Brits has suffered a &#8220;walk &#8216;n text&#8221; street injury in the past year through collisions with lampposts, bins and other pedestrians. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a picture at the link.<\/p>\n<p>History repeats itself, the first time as satire, and the second time as just good sense according to British government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: buddy bumpers to keep you out of the street.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/britains_safe_text_has_padded_lampposts_\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outside the Beltway<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how some of us like to make a little ad absurdum fun about the nanny state bubble-wrapping everything for the safety of its citizens adult children? Britain is removing satire from our repertoire: Britain&#8217;s first &#8216;Safe Text&#8217; street has been created complete with padded lampposts to protect millions of mobile phone users from [&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-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","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=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17630,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}