{"id":363,"date":"2003-07-17T18:45:46","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T02:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/mandatory-senior-driving-tests-now\/"},"modified":"2003-07-17T18:45:46","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T02:45:46","slug":"mandatory-senior-driving-tests-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/mandatory-senior-driving-tests-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory senior driving tests now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/West\/07\/16\/farmers.market.crash\/index.html\">Another oldster<\/a>, 86, hits the wrong pedal and kills 9  people. I&#8217;ve ranted about this before, but with all of the baby boomers getting older, us younger folk need to protect ourselves and get laws passed for annual mandatory driving tests over a certain age. I&#8217;ll start with 65 because it&#8217;s an easy number, but am willing to alter that based on scientific evidence as to when your reflexes really start going downhill. Of course, we know that oldsters are a huge voting block and will never go for this, fat chance of getting it passed in Florida. Yes, I&#8217;m willing to subject myself to the same law in 35 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another oldster, 86, hits the wrong pedal and kills 9 people. I&#8217;ve ranted about this before, but with all of the baby boomers getting older, us younger folk need to protect ourselves and get laws passed for annual mandatory driving tests over a certain age. I&#8217;ll start with 65 because it&#8217;s an easy number, but <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/mandatory-senior-driving-tests-now\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-5R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}