{"id":321,"date":"2006-11-22T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T00:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/11\/22\/reducing-traffic-noise\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T03:01:23","slug":"reducing-traffic-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/11\/22\/reducing-traffic-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Traffic Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key constituent groups in my race for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/06\/27\/i-adoor-the-people\/\">the Australian Presidency<\/a> is the non-conformant sleepers &#8211; people who, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/05\/12\/stock-taking\/\">perfectly legitimate and morally acceptable<\/a> reasons find themselves sleeping outside of the hours of 10pm to 6am.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to win the votes of this constituency, I will obliterate the casual use of the car horn to indicate &#8220;Good bye&#8221;, &#8220;Nice legs&#8221; and &#8220;Excuse me, I was in this lane first! Please find your own lane!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under my government, all cars sold in Australia will be required to have the car horn moved from under the bonnet into the cabin.<\/p>\n<p>You can still beep the horn when you have to &#8211; other drivers will still hear it &#8211; but it will be physically unpleasant for you when you do so.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the campaign bumper stickers soon: &#8220;I nap and I vote.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President of Australia, I will obliterate the casual use of the car horn to indicate &#8220;Good bye&#8221;, &#8220;Nice legs&#8221; and &#8220;Excuse me, I was in this lane first! Please find your own lane!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[248,290,176],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cathartic-rant","category-thoughts-from-the-shower","tag-cars","tag-napping","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}