{"id":32628,"date":"2023-06-05T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32628"},"modified":"2023-06-05T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:25:38","slug":"mulberry-putting-up-signs-warning-drivers-of-smartphone-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/06\/05\/mulberry-putting-up-signs-warning-drivers-of-smartphone-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulberry putting up signs warning drivers of \u201cSmartphone Zombies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Florida residents need to look out for zombies on the road!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No, nobody got into a reserve of bath salts or anything, this is a different kind of zombie\u2026a \u201cSmartphone Zombie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The town of Mulberry has put up dozens of signs warning motorists of \u201cSmartphone Zombies\u201d aka, pedestrians who are so engulfed in their phones they\u2019re not paying attention to their surroundings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A city official got the idea for the signs from a meme but decided to put up real ones anyway, especially around schools and libraries, where kids are often walking around on their phones and sometimes while wearing headphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reactions to the signs have been mixed, but Mulberry officials say the signs are made locally at a relatively low cost, and it doesn’t hurt to raise awareness for the fact that pedestrians are not always as alert as they should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida residents need to look out for zombies on the road! No, nobody got into a reserve of bath salts or anything, this is a different kind of zombie\u2026a \u201cSmartphone… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5167],"class_list":["post-32628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-mulberry-putting-up-signs-warning-drivers-of-smartphone-zombies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}