{"id":13634,"date":"2014-07-15T07:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13634"},"modified":"2014-07-15T07:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:04:33","slug":"ill-take-misleading-headlines-for-200-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/ill-take-misleading-headlines-for-200-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take Misleading Headlines For $200, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ky3.com\/news\/local\/stealing-canned-corn-could-bring-10year-prison-term\/21048998_26945210\" target=\"_blank\">Stealing canned corn could bring 10-year prison term<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is this?  A story of a three-strikes-and-your-out mishap, where some starving miser steals a can of corn to feed his malnourished children and faces an inhumane sentence because he&#8217;s stolen two cans of corn previously?  Not hardly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The specific charge to which both Nunn and Sherley pleaded guilty involves a theft that occurred on May 11, 2013, at the Snappy Mart Truck Stop in West Plains.  Nunn and Sherley stole a 2000 Wabash trailer (valued at $7,500), which contained a load of Green Giant canned corn (valued at $73,008).<\/p>\n<p>The trailer, owned by Bryant Freight, was in transit from Minnesota to a food bank in Arkansas.  Nunn and Sherley admitted they traveled through Missouri and Indiana with the stolen cargo before being apprehended in Michigan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They stole a trailer full of corn.  <em>Bound for a food bank.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;d done this before.<\/p>\n<p>Canned corn, indeed.  Maybe the headline writer couldn&#8217;t spell <em>trailer and load of cargo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stealing canned corn could bring 10-year prison term What is this? A story of a three-strikes-and-your-out mishap, where some starving miser steals a can of corn to feed his malnourished children and faces an inhumane sentence because he&#8217;s stolen two cans of corn previously? Not hardly. The specific charge to which both Nunn and Sherley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634","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=13634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13635,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions\/13635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}