{"id":124735,"date":"2010-01-01T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/87c275647b766a2b846f595b6b7d32a8"},"modified":"2010-01-01T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T21:50:00","slug":"article-distraction-gov-launches-to-promote-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/124735","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: &#8216;Distraction.gov&#8217; launches to promote awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/90204-Screen_shot_2010-01-01_at_5.06.09_PM.png\" alt=\"Distraction.gov\" width=\"306\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be willing to wager that nearly everyone reading this article (including the person writing it) has messaged, e-mailed, eaten, or done something distracting while in the car, causing you to lose your focus for a split second.&nbsp; While most states have banned certain forms of communication while driving, the issue is still a concern for advocacy groups nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Distraction.gov, a website created by the US Department of Transportation to promote awareness of the dangers of messaging &#8211; and really anything, for that matter &#8211; while driving.&nbsp; Loaded with statistics, frequently asked questions, research, and more, the website is intended to provide hard facts on what distracted driving actually does to our communities.<\/p>\n<p>Distraction.gov is worth a look, and I imagine it will be the first of a long list of educational resources as messaging continues to increase nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/htmls\/Distraction.gov-launched-by-the-US-government-to-promote-awareness-article-a_8512.html\" >PhoneArena<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distraction.gov\" >Distraction.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tCyYGZRbdg4wfSmmQj71TX7YBhY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tCyYGZRbdg4wfSmmQj71TX7YBhY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tCyYGZRbdg4wfSmmQj71TX7YBhY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tCyYGZRbdg4wfSmmQj71TX7YBhY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/Jcg30nMiSZA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be willing to wager that nearly everyone reading this article (including the person writing it) has messaged, e-mailed, eaten, or done something distracting while in the car, causing you to lose your focus for a split second.&nbsp; While most states have banned certain forms of communication while driving, the issue is still a concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}