{"id":985,"date":"2005-06-03T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/06\/03\/click-it-around-the-country\/"},"modified":"2005-06-03T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T15:59:18","slug":"click-it-around-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/click-it-around-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Click it around the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/17233517\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/photos\/17233517_fda864fede_o-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Click it or else\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI forgot how I came across it, but Matt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogging.la\">LA Metblog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogging.la\/archives\/2005\/05\/say_it_dont_spr.phtml\">posted over the Memorial Day weekend<\/a> about the &#8220;Click It or Ticket&#8221; media blitz from California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Austin, if you&#8217;ve driven I-35 through downtown, I don&#8217;t know how you could&#8217;ve missed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckleuptexas.com\/clickit\/ciotpics.asp\">same campaign here<\/a> courtesy of TxDOT. Well, it&#8217;s all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckleupamerica.org\/nmay05\/nmay05.php\">coming from NHTSA<\/a>. I suppose they want to drill it into people&#8217;s heads at the start of the busy summer vacation travel season. I don&#8217;t think I really have anything against it. I always wear one, but it seems like overkill, especially since there&#8217;s another billboard with the same image a mere 5 blocks to the south on the same side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.metblogs.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/92_92_92_92.phtml\">Hawaii has a post<\/a> on this as well. What I want to know is why the fine&#8217;s only $92 there and it can be as high as $200 here?<\/p>\n<p>Beware Highway Traffic Man, The Metbloggers are hip to your game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot how I came across it, but Matt from LA Metblog posted over the Memorial Day weekend about the &#8220;Click It or Ticket&#8221; media blitz from California Highway Patrol. Here in Austin, if you&#8217;ve driven I-35 through downtown, I don&#8217;t know how you could&#8217;ve missed the same campaign here courtesy of TxDOT. Well, it&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/click-it-around-the-country\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-fT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}