{"id":2781,"date":"2022-09-20T13:08:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2022-09-20T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:08:39","slug":"are-phones-causing-drivers-to-be-jerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/20\/are-phones-causing-drivers-to-be-jerks\/","title":{"rendered":"Are phones causing drivers to be jerks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to know when an observation indicates a real change, or whether you just started noticing it more. For example, it&#8217;s common for people to take note when they see something three times in a day. E.g., &#8220;I&#8217;d never even heard of zucchini bread, and then I heard it mentioned three times in one day!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible you had heard of zucchini bread before, you just never paid attention, and this time you did. It&#8217;s also not that unusual for there to be clumps in random distributions. <\/p>\n<p>So I make this observation with the understanding that it might not have any significance at all, but it seems to me that it&#8217;s far more common these days for drivers to slow down or stop in the middle of the road, without any consideration for the people around them. I blame this on Google maps, and similar technology. People slow down or stop to read the directions. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m curious if anyone else has noticed this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to know when an observation indicates a real change, or whether you just started noticing it more. For example, it&#8217;s common for people to take note when they see something three times in a day. E.g., &#8220;I&#8217;d never even heard of zucchini bread, and then I heard it mentioned three times in one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/20\/are-phones-causing-drivers-to-be-jerks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are phones causing drivers to be jerks?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}