{"id":818,"date":"2011-11-29T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=818"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:51:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:51:46","slug":"why-are-us-teenagers-driving-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/why-are-us-teenagers-driving-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are US Teenagers Driving Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; by Brian Wheeler<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-15847682\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/56945000\/jpg\/_56945320_graffiti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American teenagers are taking to the road in fewer numbers than ever before. What&#8217;s behind this trend and does it mean the end of the car as adolescent status symbol and rite of passage?<\/p>\n<p>If Ferris Bueller had a day off now, would he spend it on Facebook?<\/p>\n<p>Recent research suggests many young Americans prefer to spend their money and time chatting to their friends online, as opposed to the more traditional pastime of cruising around in cars.<\/p>\n<p>For the high school students in films like Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off and American Graffiti, cars were the ultimate expression of individuality and personal freedom &#8211; just as they have been for generations of Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-15847682\" target=\"_blank\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by Brian Wheeler BBC News Magazine American teenagers are taking to the road in fewer numbers than ever before. What&#8217;s behind this trend and does it mean the end of the car as adolescent status symbol and rite of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/why-are-us-teenagers-driving-less\/\">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":[6824,111,6827,6845],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour-change","category-news","category-peers","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}