{"id":87110,"date":"2009-12-17T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2009-12-17T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:11:05","slug":"boston-moves-to-ban-texting-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87110","title":{"rendered":"Boston moves to ban texting while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-585\" title=\"texting-driving\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/texting-driving-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"texting-driving\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Good news for those of you who (like me) cringe and change lanes when you see someone two-handed texting while &#8220;driving&#8221; their cars: the Boston City Council yesterday voted unanimously to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/12\/17\/boston_acts_to_ban_driver_texting\/\">ban texting while driving<\/a>. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has said he&#8217;ll sign the ban as soon as it hits his desk, and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has said he supports a ban on texting while driving, so hopefully the state will follow suit soon.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Emily, a youth advisor in Children&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngwomenshealth.org\/\">Center for Young Women&#8217;s Health<\/a>, wrote a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/yapblog.typepad.com\/yapblog\/\">Youth Advisory Program&#8217;s blog<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/yapblog.typepad.com\/yapblog\/2009\/08\/omg-txtin-drivin-int-so-gr8.html\">dangers of texting while driving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/texting-and-driving\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Texting and driving'>Texting and driving<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/this-week-on-thrive-dec-14-18\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: This week on Thrive: Dec. 14 &#8211; 18'>This week on Thrive: Dec. 14 &#8211; 18<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/warning-this-photo-contains-unrealistic-body-images\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Warning: This photo contains unrealistic body images'>Warning: This photo contains unrealistic body images<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/childrenshospitalblog\/~4\/oMn3HRUIs_o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for those of you who (like me) cringe and change lanes when you see someone two-handed texting while &#8220;driving&#8221; their cars: the Boston City Council yesterday voted unanimously to ban texting while driving. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has said he&#8217;ll sign the ban as soon as it hits his desk, and Massachusetts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87110","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\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}