{"id":1339,"date":"2013-03-04T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:40:58","slug":"the-drivers-license-and-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/03\/the-drivers-license-and-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Driver&#8217;s License and Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems odd that to purchase alcohol a person must show they have a license to operate a motor vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are things in society that seem odd to me. One is the relationship we have established between obtaining alcohol and having a license to operate a motor vehicle. If you want to purchase alcohol, you must show that you are of proper age. The method of doing so is to show your license to operate a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>By now, we have pretty much established the danger of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant &#8211; it slows the reaction of the brain and body. While operating a motor vehicle, we want unimpaired reaction of brain and body.<\/p>\n<p>Still, to buy alcohol, you show your license to operate a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that if you have a license to operate a motor vehicle, you would be disallowed from purchasing alcohol. Only those people who did not own a motor vehicle and did not have a license to operate a motor vehicle would be permitted to purchase alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I am odd for thinking this to be odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It seems odd that to purchase alcohol a person must show they have a license to operate a motor vehicle. There are things in society that seem odd to me. One is the relationship we have established between obtaining alcohol and having a license to operate a motor vehicle. If you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,48,33,7,13],"tags":[139,170,155,130,136],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general-systems-thinking","category-health","category-judgment","category-logic","tag-culture","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-health","tag-judgment","tag-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}