{"id":7022,"date":"2004-07-16T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/07\/16\/driving-while-communicant\/"},"modified":"2004-07-16T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T13:37:03","slug":"driving-while-communicant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/07\/driving-while-communicant\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving While Communicant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"><span class=\"articles\">Zagreb &#8211; Croatia has adopted tough new zero-tolerance drink-driving laws in a bid to curb road accidents, the HINA news agency reported on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Parliament adopted a bill late on Thursday introducing zero blood-alcohol tolerance, abolishing the previous threshold of 0.05 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The law will come into effect on August 20 at the end of the tourist season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">It also set strong fines of up to 3 000 kunas (about R3 100) for those caught driving while under the influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The conservative government tightened the drink-driving rules in the face of opposition complaints that the zero-tolerance policy could impact negatively on the booming tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Even the influential Catholic church called for a compromise solution of 0.03 percent or the exemption of priests, arguing that they have to imbibe wine as part of their work.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=24&#038;art_id=qw1089974880964C634\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagreb &#8211; Croatia has adopted tough new zero-tolerance drink-driving laws in a bid to curb road accidents, the HINA news agency reported on Friday. Parliament adopted a bill late on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}