{"id":168470,"date":"2019-03-29T07:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168470"},"modified":"2019-03-29T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:57:54","slug":"law-enforcement-extra-patrols-distracted-drving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168470","title":{"rendered":"Law Enforcement extra patrols, distracted drving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) \u00a0North Dakota and law enforcement across the state will have extra patrols to enforce the state\u2019s distracted driving law from April 1-30 for the nationwide U Drive. U Text. U Pay. campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 370 citations were issued in North Dakota to distracted drivers during the state\u2019s two enforcement periods (April and September). Distracted driving takes on many forms; however, texting is one of the most common across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger \u00a0says, \u201cTexting and driving is illegal because it is dangerous.\u00a0 It\u2019s not worth it to put your life and the lives of others at risk. Put the phone away or get a do not disturb app so you always drive distraction free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) \u00a0North Dakota and law enforcement across the state will have extra patrols to enforce the state\u2019s distracted driving law from April 1-30 for the nationwide U Drive. U Text. U Pay. campaign. Last year, more than 370 citations were issued in North Dakota to distracted drivers during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168471,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168470\/revisions\/168471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}