{"id":42913,"date":"2015-10-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/comic-strip-followers-pressure-lawmakers-for-new-law\/"},"modified":"2015-10-05T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T17:58:43","slug":"seguidores-de-popular-tira-comica-presionan-legisladores-a-crear-nueva-ley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/seguidores-de-popular-tira-comica-presionan-legisladores-a-crear-nueva-ley\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-strip followers pressure lawmakers for new law."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 5, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; On <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 23<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup>, a character from a popular comic-strip was run over by a driver who was texting.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20151003\/273673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20151003\/273673<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Since then, followers have flooded lawmaker emails demanding a new law requiring all mobile service companies to invest 10% of its annual advertising budget on ads or efforts aimed at educating the public on the dangers of texting while driving. <\/p>\n<p>It seems to be working.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are feeling the heat as the popular character known as Pepito remains hospitalized and no one is sure when he&#8217;ll wake up. Some say it&#8217;s when the bill is passed.<\/p>\n<p>It just so happened that on that particular day, Pepito was on his way to the mailbox to send a letter pleading legislators to pass this new law. Needless to say, the letter never made it to its destination. Subsequent strips show Pepito in a hospital bed and the letter still on the ground next to the mailbox. The creators published the contents of Pepito&#8217;s letter and asked its fans to forward the letter to lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p>The results have been staggering. Hundreds of letters were sent and the local news media is covering the event as if it really happened to raise awareness to this problem.<\/p>\n<p>The comic-strip, Pepito, centers on a rambunctious seven year old and is known for its social critique. The strip is written by its creators <span class=\"xn-person\">Harold Jessurun<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Anibal Quinones<\/span>, and is published daily in <span class=\"xn-person\">Primera Hora<\/span>, a local newspaper in <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, and has over 64,000 followers on Facebook. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 5, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; On <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 23<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup>, a character from a popular comic-strip was run over by a driver who was texting.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20151003\/273673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20151003\/273673<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Since then, followers have flooded lawmaker emails demanding a new law requiring all mobile service companies to invest 10% of its annual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entretenimiento","category-titulares"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}