{"id":9747,"date":"2010-03-18T11:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/why-70-miles-per-hour-is-the-new-55\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:54:26","slug":"why-70-miles-per-hour-is-the-new-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/why-70-miles-per-hour-is-the-new-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704688604575125510326010610.html?mod=yhoofront'>Why 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Left to their own devices, American drivers confronted with an open stretch of interstate highway tend to drive at about 70 miles per hour\u2014whatever the legal speed limit happens to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&rsquo;s interesting that Washington DC has the slowest drivers, mostly because of the chronic traffic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55 Left to their own devices, American drivers confronted with an open stretch of interstate highway tend to drive at about 70 miles per hour\u2014whatever the legal speed limit happens to be. I think it&rsquo;s interesting that Washington DC has the slowest drivers, mostly because of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/why-70-miles-per-hour-is-the-new-55\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}