{"id":50,"date":"2005-07-20T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/no-phones-in-chicago\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T23:07:00","slug":"no-phones-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"No phones in chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A law imposing a $50 fine for those using cell phones while driving goes into effect Friday. The fine increases to $200 if the driver gets in an accident while talking on the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This law went into effect on July 8th.  I find it ironic that in a city where no helmet law is enforced for motorcycle riders and smoking is still permitted in public areas, that phones while driving are banned.  Im not saying that they shouldn&#8217;t be, Im just saying I find it rather ironic.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d get accomplished half the business meetings that I need to, if that were the case here.<\/p>\n<p>Anita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A law imposing a $50 fine for those using cell phones while driving goes into effect Friday. The fine increases to $200 if the driver gets in an accident while talking on the phone.&#8221; This law went into effect on July 8th. I find it ironic that in a city where no helmet law is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}