{"id":751,"date":"2005-02-01T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/02\/01\/not-a-good-idea\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:17","slug":"not-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/02\/01\/not-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a smoker.  I don&#8217;t like it, I think it&#8217;s dangerous, and I think it&#8217;s a gross habit.  However, the news below alarms me.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An employer in the business of administering other companies&#8217; benefits decided to eliminate smokers from its work force by randomly testing them for nicotine in their blood or urine. The zero-tolerance tobacco policy applies to smokers in general, not just those who light up on company time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kristen Gerencher, <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7B1D53E5CE-894E-4DB8-BB29-F48D9CB09DC6%7D&#038;siteid=google&#038;dist=google\">Keep Smoking or Keep My Job?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?  Random cholesterol checks?    This is a very slippery slope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a smoker. I don&#8217;t like it, I think it&#8217;s dangerous, and I think it&#8217;s a gross habit. However, the news below alarms me. An employer in the business of administering other companies&#8217; benefits decided to eliminate smokers from its work force by randomly testing them for nicotine in their blood or urine. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12686,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/12686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}