{"id":1616,"date":"2005-05-02T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/no_helmet_bill\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T22:06:01","slug":"no_helmet_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/no_helmet_bill\/","title":{"rendered":"No Helmet Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee legislature is at it again with its annual consideration of a bill <a title=\"Helmet-law change rides toward key vote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/local\/archives\/05\/03\/68972848.shtml?Element_ID=68972848\">removing the helmet requirement for motorcyclists<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlthough I generally favor granting individuals as much personal freedom as possible, I think I lean the other way on this one.  I balance the competing interests, and this seems to weigh in favor of safety: the public cost for this elective risk is significant, given what I consider to be the relatively minor nuisance of wearing a helmet.<br \/>\nAs the article points out, the $10,000 insurance requirement is a joke; motorcycle crash victims with head injuries typically face hospitalization bills well above $10,000.<br \/>\nAt any rate, there&#8217;s a Darwinian element to this whole debate.  For my part, I&#8217;d hate to risk bouncing my unprotected noggin on the road while chugging away on a bike going 18 mph, much less cruising around at 65+ mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/no_helmet_bill\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to No Helmet Bill\"><p>The Tennessee legislature is at it again with its annual consideration of a bill removing the helmet requirement for motorcyclists. Although I generally favor granting individuals as much personal freedom as possible, I think I lean the other way on this one. I balance the competing interests, and this seems to weigh in favor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}