{"id":492,"date":"2008-03-12T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2008-03-12T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T09:44:38","slug":"a-pint-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"A pint too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single pint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/one-pint-too-much-as-drive-limit-cut-1314142.html\" target=\"_blank\">will see you over Ireland&#8217;s drink-driving limit<\/a>, and I&#8217;m happy about that. I don&#8217;t know how much it will reduce the death toll on the roads &#8212; although according to the <em>Irish Independent<\/em> it&#8217;s a factor in 40% of road deaths &#8212; but stricter enforcement can only be a good thing. It would have been nice, but nonetheless too much to expect, for the Indo to include a source for this information though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   Drivers currently driving just below the legally permitted maximum level are    estimated to be two to three times as likely to be involved in an accident    as drivers with a zero blood alcohol limit known as BAC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I live in a country where there is zero, let me repeat ZERO, tolerance for drink-driving. Although the standard of driving here is absolutely shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single pint will see you over Ireland&#8217;s drink-driving limit, and I&#8217;m happy about that. I don&#8217;t know how much it will reduce the death toll on the roads &#8212; although according to the Irish Independent it&#8217;s a factor in 40% of road deaths &#8212; but stricter enforcement can only be a good thing. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}