{"id":4559,"date":"2008-08-20T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T20:47:30","slug":"government-to-hinder-conversation-on-my-front-porch-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/government-to-hinder-conversation-on-my-front-porch-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Government To Hinder Conversation On My Front Porch In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live next to an interstate highway, and the front yard is pretty loud; you need to speak up to be heard.  However, I used to say that in 20 years, we wouldn&#8217;t hear that highway because the internal combustion engine would be out of style.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the government is working to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/08\/20\/quiet.cars.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">save the endangered Noise Pollution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they&#8217;re bad for the blind.<\/p>\n<p>It has passed a bill to ensure that the vehicles make enough noise to be heard by visually impaired people about to cross a street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, guys.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/truth-is-dumber-than-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\">Porch Girl<\/a>&#8216;s.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live next to an interstate highway, and the front yard is pretty loud; you need to speak up to be heard. However, I used to say that in 20 years, we wouldn&#8217;t hear that highway because the internal combustion engine would be out of style. Fortunately, the government is working to save the endangered [&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-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17425,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/17425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}