{"id":2821,"date":"2010-02-27T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:50:46","slug":"2821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"atoyoT two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I commented on Toyota&#8217;s troubles a <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2812\">few posts ago<\/a>. A more fully reasoned commentary on the subject can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/krauthammer022610.php3\">here<\/a>. (My thanks to Vic)<\/p>\n<p>One paragraph from the post above about the lives we know we will sacrifice for comfort, speed and convenience is worth quoting in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And don&#8217;t imagine that we do not coldly calculate the price of a human life. In 1974, the speed limit was lowered to 55 mph to conserve oil. That also led to a dramatic drop in traffic fatalities \u00e2\u20ac\u201d approximately 3,000 lives every year. This didn&#8217;t stop us, after the oil crisis, from raising the speed limit back to 65 and beyond \u00e2\u20ac\u201d knowing that thousands of Americans would die as a result<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I commented on Toyota&#8217;s troubles a few posts ago. A more fully reasoned commentary on the subject can be found here. (My thanks to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}