{"id":3020,"date":"2006-03-17T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:25:39","slug":"tall-tales-not-yet-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/tall-tales-not-yet-a-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall Tales Not Yet a Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Illinois, they&#8217;re going to make it illegal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/illinoisstatenews\/story\/A6B2426F1658A96C86257133001F8174?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">to embellish your past<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People who pretend to have earned some of the nation&#8217;s most prestigious military medals, including the Purple Heart, the Medal of Honor and others, could pay a fine of up to $200 under a bill being considered today by the state Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jumping merry jesophat, I think it&#8217;s odious, but <i>criminal<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Sure it starts with pretending about having served with distinction in the military, but there&#8217;s nothing different, really, about lying about military service, lying about playing sports in high school, or lying about your sexual conquests.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For one in our society to falsely represent themselves as having received that very, very important recognition, I think is a serious offense not only in law but to our morality,&#8221; said Rep. Dan Burke, D-Chicago, the bill&#8217;s sponsor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tell you what, Representative, let&#8217;s expand that bill a bit more to extend to embellishments or insincere promises made by politicians because <b><i>I<\/i><\/b> think that&#8217;s a series offense not only in law but to our morality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Illinois, they&#8217;re going to make it illegal to embellish your past: People who pretend to have earned some of the nation&#8217;s most prestigious military medals, including the Purple Heart, the Medal of Honor and others, could pay a fine of up to $200 under a bill being considered today by the state Senate. Jumping [&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-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18845,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/18845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}