{"id":2053,"date":"2005-03-15T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:16:30","slug":"2053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/2053\/","title":{"rendered":"More Separate But Unequal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7188526\/\" target=\"_new\">Waiter, there&#8217;s a nose ring in my soup: Wyoming may ban facial piercings in restaurants<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As if the hair in your salad wasn&#8217;t bad enough, a city health inspector in Cheyenne, Wyo. said there had been &#8220;several cases&#8221; of tongue rings and other facial jewelry found in the food in the city&#8217;s restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>It was enough to persuade the Governor&#8217;s Food Safety Council to recommend banning facial jewelry for restaurant workers who prepare food &#8212; perhaps becoming the first state in the country to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on brooches, pendants\/necklaces, or earrings, many of which are more dangly and eligible to fall off.  No, sir, instead, we have a state government moving at lightning speed to ban something based on anecdotal &#8220;evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we expect nothing less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiter, there&#8217;s a nose ring in my soup: Wyoming may ban facial piercings in restaurants As if the hair in your salad wasn&#8217;t bad enough, a city health inspector in Cheyenne, Wyo. said there had been &#8220;several cases&#8221; of tongue rings and other facial jewelry found in the food in the city&#8217;s restaurants. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","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=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20434,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/20434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}