{"id":1050,"date":"2009-12-01T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:36:04","slug":"50-new-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/12\/01\/50-new-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"50+ New NC Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that as of today you can&#8217;t text while driving in NC.\u00a0\u00a0 Duh.\u00a0 As if it were OK before the law went into effect.\u00a0 You also can&#8217;t let your python loose to kill your neighbor or a kid.\u00a0 Apparently that was also excusable before today.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fine motorists as much as $100 if they drive a car with a license plate frame that covers the state name or plate date. Drivers who are cited will receive only a warning through next November.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Translation: <\/strong>Don&#8217;t cover your license plate so the cops can&#8217;t see it.\u00a0 Go ahead and give the ones that say &#8220;Blessed and Deserving&#8221; the fine now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ban the sale, possession and manufacture of Salvia divinorum, a hallucinogenic herb that&#8217;s become popular among young people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Translation: <\/strong>Don&#8217;t get wasted on hallucinogenic herbs kids.\u00a0 Especially the ones you can&#8217;t pronounce.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>permit people who lose their licenses because of repeat drunken-driving convictions to ask that their driving privileges be restored after a spotless record for 10 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Translation: <\/strong>Don&#8217;t drive drunk in the first place and you won&#8217;t have to wait 10 years to do it again.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expand the law making it a felony to solicit a child by computer to commit unlawful sex acts to include cell phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Translation: <\/strong>Don&#8217;t molest children with your cell phone (or any other way).<\/p>\n<p>We wouldn&#8217;t need so many laws if some people just had more common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that as of today you can&#8217;t text while driving in NC.\u00a0\u00a0 Duh.\u00a0 As if it were OK before the law went into effect.\u00a0 You also can&#8217;t let your python loose to kill your neighbor or a kid.\u00a0 Apparently that was also excusable before today.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some more: fine motorists as much as $100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/12\/01\/50-new-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50+ New NC Laws<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}