{"id":2258,"date":"2005-05-15T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2018-06-08T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:35:07","slug":"reflecting-on-life-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/reflecting-on-life-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Life Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/7F6939BEE3C923638625700100124BB8?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two men each received two life sentences plus 512 years in prison on Friday for robbing a grocery store in St. Charles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  If Martin Luther had gotten that sentence for his 95 theses, he&#8217;d be eligible for release in 2128.  Of course, in today&#8217;s prosecution environment, he&#8217;d have gotten a separate count of something for each thesis.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see perspective and reasonability involved in sentencing.  After all, with improvements in medical science, it&#8217;s important that we as a society sentence offenders to <i><b>half a milennium<\/i><\/b> in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story: Two men each received two life sentences plus 512 years in prison on Friday for robbing a grocery store in St. Charles. Wow. If Martin Luther had gotten that sentence for his 95 theses, he&#8217;d be eligible for release in 2128. Of course, in today&#8217;s prosecution environment, he&#8217;d have gotten a separate count of [&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-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20109,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/20109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}