{"id":34079,"date":"2025-07-21T05:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34079"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:35:16","slug":"putting-the-most-heinous-crime-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/21\/putting-the-most-heinous-crime-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Most Heinous Crime First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/dogassault.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Drug trafficking?  Meh; the rural papers are full of tales of drug traffickers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assaulting a dog?<\/em>  <b>String him up!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am not endorsing this view, but it&#8217;s been this way a long time.  The death of a man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic, and the hurt of a dog is an abomination.  I remember sitting in the theater watching <em>Independence Day<\/em> when L.A. is getting destroyed by aliens-aliens (not, as it actually happened), the buildings are collapsing, cars are getting caught in a blast radius, and the crowd cheers when the dog is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere on the heat chart of who loves what (family, neighbors, the Other), the spot for <em>animals<\/em> is probably bright red for both conservatives and liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug trafficking? Meh; the rural papers are full of tales of drug traffickers. Assaulting a dog? String him up! I am not endorsing this view, but it&#8217;s been this way a long time. The death of a man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic, and the hurt of a dog is [&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-34079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079","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=34079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34080,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079\/revisions\/34080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}