{"id":338,"date":"2008-05-07T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-11-30T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:44:06","slug":"can-you-drive-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Can You Drive 55?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/55_mph.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"55_mph\" width=\"425\" height=\"181\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If our president had an ounce of courage,\u00a0we&#8217;d have a national 55 mph speed limit again.\u00a0 As much as I&#8217;d personally hate it, it would be a worthy sacrifice, even a patriotic one.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, tell you what . . .\u00a0I&#8217;ll slow down if you will.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: I thought President Gerald Ford\u00a0introduced the 55 mph limit during the 1970s oil crisis.\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 It was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Maximum_Speed_Law\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Nixon<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, you gotta give him that . . . he had a pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If our president had an ounce of courage,\u00a0we&#8217;d have a national 55 mph speed limit again.\u00a0 As much as I&#8217;d personally hate it, it would be a worthy sacrifice, even a patriotic one. Hey, tell you what . . .\u00a0I&#8217;ll slow down if you will. Side note: I thought President Gerald Ford\u00a0introduced the 55 mph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}