{"id":3968,"date":"2011-09-15T21:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:11:02","slug":"optometrist-says-blonde-drivers-much-more-dangerous-than-brunettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/15\/optometrist-says-blonde-drivers-much-more-dangerous-than-brunettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Optometrist says blonde drivers &#8220;much more dangerous&#8221; than brunettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a May 1937 Associated Press article, blonde drivers are  &#8220;much more dangerous&#8221; than brunettes, because:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When the lights of an oncoming car hit a driver&#8217;s eyes he drives blind for a certain number of feet. &#8230; It takes from one-fifth to one and one-fifth seconds to recover natural night-driving vision. Blondes with light eyes take far longer than brunettes with dark eyes and should drive much slower.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since this 74-year-old article is  the first time  I&#8217;ve ever heard of this theory, I figure it&#8217;s safe to assume it was disproved a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Blondes1937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Blondes1937-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blondes1937\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Blondes1937-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Blondes1937.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll tell me if I&#8217;m wrong in that assumption, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a May 1937 Associated Press article, blonde drivers are &#8220;much more dangerous&#8221; than brunettes, because: When the lights of an oncoming car hit a driver&#8217;s eyes he drives blind for a certain number of feet. &#8230; It takes from one-fifth to one and one-fifth seconds to recover natural night-driving vision. Blondes with light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}