{"id":15233,"date":"2009-09-29T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/poll_big_support_for_outlawing_driver_texting\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:28:28","slug":"poll_big_support_for_outlawing_driver_texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15233","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Big support for outlawing driver texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public overwhelmingly supports the prohibition of text messaging while driving, the latest New York Times\/CBS News Poll finds. Ninety percent of adults say sending a text message while driving should be illegal, and only 8 percent disagree.<\/p>\n<p>There is no difference in support based on region of the country, party identification, marital status or whether the respondent owns a cell phone, the poll found.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 percent of every demographic group says sending text messages while driving should be illegal, but some are more adamant about such a prohibition than others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/thebuzz\/story\/961820.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public overwhelmingly supports the prohibition of text messaging while driving, the latest New York Times\/CBS News Poll finds. Ninety percent of adults say sending a text message while driving should be illegal, and only 8 percent disagree. There is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15233\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,114,95,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-law-legal-issues","category-science-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}