{"id":40865,"date":"2013-12-31T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40865"},"modified":"2013-12-31T07:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:08:50","slug":"who-knew-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40865","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis has a <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/stories\/s3263810.shtml\">car idling law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We caught about a dozen Minneapolis residents idling their cars past the legal limit this morning, and none of them knew they were breaking the law&#8230;<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">15 minutes is all the time you have if you&#8217;re within Minneapolis city limits. In below-zero temperatures, drivers in Minneapolis can leave their car idling and unattended for up to 15 minutes. When the temperatures warm above zero, the idling limit is just three minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe half an hour,&#8221; said Kissel, on how long she lets her car warm up. &#8220;But I wouldn&#8217;t know the difference. It&#8217;s the morning. You forget time!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet they have no idle politician law.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a &#8220;green&#8221; thing; it&#8217;s about preventing auto theft &#8211; by making it illegal to leave a car in a condition where it can easily be stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly? \u00a0I&#8217;d almost prefer the &#8220;green&#8221; law; at least it&#8217;d be stupid, rather than \u00a0stupid and insulting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis has a car idling law: We caught about a dozen Minneapolis residents idling their cars past the legal limit this morning, and none of them knew they were breaking the law&#8230;15 minutes is all the time you have if you&#8217;re within Minneapolis city limits. In below-zero temperatures, drivers in Minneapolis can leave their car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40866,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions\/40866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}