{"id":502,"date":"2011-07-31T22:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=502"},"modified":"2011-07-31T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:50:14","slug":"a-little-humor-for-a-serious-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/a-little-humor-for-a-serious-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Humor for a Serious Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across these sayings on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotegarden.com\/teen-drivers.html\" target=\"_blank\">quotes and teen driving website<\/a>. It never hurts to take a little time to quietly giggle over a serious subject. Please don&#8217;t complain\u00a0 to AMC, we don&#8217;t mean to offend or stereotype and certainly didn&#8217;t make these up ourselves! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>When  buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.\u00a0 If all the stations  are rock and roll, there&#8217;s a good chance the transmission is shot. <\/em> ~<strong>Larry Lujack<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.<\/em> ~<strong>Erma Bombeck<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.<\/em> ~<strong>E.B. White<\/strong>, <em>One Man&#8217;s Meat<\/em>, 1943<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere  pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.<\/em> ~<strong>Dorothy Parker<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>Mother Nature is providential.\u00a0 She gives us twelve years to develop a  love for our children before turning them into teenagers.<\/em> ~<strong>William  Galvin<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.<\/em> ~<strong>Raymond Duncan<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>The invention of the teenager was a mistake.\u00a0 Once you identify a period  of life in which people get to stay out late but don&#8217;t have to pay  taxes &#8211; naturally, no one wants to live any other way.<\/em> ~<strong>Judith Martin<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.\u00a0 Between the ages of 12 and  17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.<\/em> ~<strong>Author Unknown<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came  from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.<\/em> ~<strong>Author Unknown<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.<\/em> ~<strong>Steven Wright<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif\"><em>A suburban mother&#8217;s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.<\/em> ~<strong>Peter De Vries <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across these sayings on a quotes and teen driving website. It never hurts to take a little time to quietly giggle over a serious subject. Please don&#8217;t complain\u00a0 to AMC, we don&#8217;t mean to offend or stereotype and certainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/a-little-humor-for-a-serious-subject\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5440,6829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amc","category-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}