{"id":2165,"date":"2007-07-19T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2007-07-19T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T17:29:25","slug":"daily-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"Daily reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* The good &#8211; MPs suggest that the age of starting driving on the roads be <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/transport\/Story\/0,,2129739,00.html\">lifted to 18<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Young male drivers are now the biggest killer of young women in the UK, according to the report from the transport select committee. They are also a danger to themselves: more than three times as many are killed as young female drivers, although they are more likely to pass the driving test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* The bad &#8211; <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/japan\/story\/0,,2130213,00.html\">another leak<\/a> from the quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant, which may have been built on a fault line!<\/p>\n<p>* The informative &#8211; a story about a Portugese woman who fooled everyone by <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,2130466,00.html\">dressing as a man<\/a> for two decades &#8211; amazing how easy this is in societies with rigid gender divides &#8211; shows you how much gender is performative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* The good &#8211; MPs suggest that the age of starting driving on the roads be lifted to 18: Young male drivers are now the biggest killer of young women in the UK, according to the report from the transport select committee. They are also a danger to themselves: more than three times as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}