{"id":10861,"date":"2012-11-14T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10861"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:10:43","slug":"ban-elderly-from-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10861","title":{"rendered":"Ban Elderly From Cemeteries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of August I reported on a <a title=\"Learenr damages headstone - hyenas come out to play!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-incident where a learner driver<\/a> had accidentally damaged a headstone while driving through a cemetery. The local hyenas immediately called for learners to be banned from all cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>I note from the newsfeeds <a title=\"The Sun - Elderly Driver reverses into headstone.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/4642870\/Driver-makes-grave-error-as-he-reverses-over-a-headstone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this latest example of headstone vandalism<\/a>, where an elderly driver in his mid-70s attempted to manoeuvre his vehicle and ended up flattening someone\u2019s monument. This one happened in Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p>The local hyenas have not yet clamoured for the elderly &#8211; who are a far greater risk than learners in these locations &#8211; to be banned from cemeteries.\u00a0 I won\u2019t hold my breath.<\/p>\n<p>(Note the tragedy surrounding <a title=\"Retest Elderly Drivers says grieving mother\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cassie McCord<\/a>, also discussed previously.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of August I reported on a non-incident where a learner driver had accidentally damaged a headstone while driving through a cemetery. The local hyenas immediately called for learners to be banned from all cemeteries. I note from the newsfeeds this latest example of headstone vandalism, where an elderly driver in his mid-70s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}