{"id":2318,"date":"2014-10-18T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2014-10-18T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T22:53:47","slug":"lagos-ban-car-horns-for-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Lagos ban car horns for one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entryText clearfix\">\n<div class=\"vtbegenerated\">\n<p>The Nigerian city of Lagos has banned the use of car horns for one day, or drivers face a \u00a375 fine. &#8220;The objective of the day is to reduce noise pollution,&#8221; Lagos state government\u2019s transport commissioner, Kayode Opeifa, said. &#8220;The exercise will create awareness that horn misuse and abuse is very dangerous to health and the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/15\/lagos-bans-car-horns-deafening-traffic-noise\">The Guardian web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian city of Lagos has banned the use of car horns for one day, or drivers face a \u00a375 fine. &#8220;The objective of the <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"entry-more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2318\" class=\"entry-more-link entry-more-link-excerpt btn btn-primary\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}