{"id":127,"date":"2003-07-21T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2011-04-16T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T20:04:25","slug":"127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/21\/127\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending the Felony Rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You loyal readers have noticed I often spit upon proposals to create new felony crimes or bump existing infractions up into felonies (come on, jaywalking causes over $1000 damage to public safety?).  Well, some other digitaluminaries are weighing in on this very subject, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/010561.php\" target=\"new\">Professor Reynolds<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertprather.us\/archives\/005258.php\" target=\"new\">Robert Prather<\/a> (Not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&#038;field-keywords=Richard%20Prather&#038;search-type=ss&#038;bq=1\/103-0386628-7647859\" target=\"new\">Richard Prather<\/a>, sorry Shell Scott fans).<\/p>\n<p>Now, if each of us could convince one of our senators that this is a good idea, we&#8217;re a little under 6% of the way to reform!  Well, not quite 6 percent, but closer than we are now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You loyal readers have noticed I often spit upon proposals to create new felony crimes or bump existing infractions up into felonies (come on, jaywalking causes over $1000 damage to public safety?). Well, some other digitaluminaries are weighing in on this very subject, including Professor Reynolds and Robert Prather (Not Richard Prather, sorry Shell Scott [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}