{"id":62729,"date":"2010-11-10T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123230466"},"modified":"2010-11-10T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T22:52:19","slug":"drowsiness-driving-are-a-dangerous-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=62729","title":{"rendered":"Drowsiness, driving are a dangerous mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123230466\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/111004-F-5247G-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to determine how many automobile crashes involve drivers who have dozed off at the wheel each year because drivers have to admit they&#8217;ve fallen asleep or witnesses must exist to inform authorities. <\/p>\n<p>People often hear of the dangers of mixing alcohol, drugs or texting and driving, but driver fatigue is seldom mentioned as a major cause of mishaps, at least in national public awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awareness of driver fatigue is growing, however,&#8221; said Tech. Sgt. Sarah Law, 50th Space Wing NCOIC of ground safety. &#8220;This week has been deemed National Drowsy Driving Prevention Week by the National Sleep Foundation and recognized nationwide, so it&#8217;s a good time for us to promote awareness about the problem.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123230466\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}