{"id":3820,"date":"2007-06-11T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2017-11-28T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:07:35","slug":"maybe-she-should-have-shot-her-husband-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/11\/maybe-she-should-have-shot-her-husband-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe She Should Have Shot Her Husband Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let your child drink at home: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article1913168.ece\" target=\"_new\">27 months in jail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elisa Kelly did not want her teenage son, Ryan, or his friends to endanger their lives by drinking and driving. So she decided to let him have a 16th birthday party at home, where she would supply the beer, confiscate all the car keys and supervise a nightlong sleep-over.<\/p>\n<p>Today she begins a 27-month jail sentence imposed by courts in Virginia \u2013 where drinking is banned for people under the age of 21 \u2013 for &#8220;contributing to the delinquency of minors&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s reduced from the original sentence of <i>8 years in jail<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>On the less serious end of crime, we have shoot your husband dead, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteertv.com\/home\/headlines\/7900412.html\" target=\"_new\">210 days in jail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Knoxville native Mary Winkler will go to jail in connection with the killing of her minister husband.<\/p>\n<p>A judge sentenced Winkler to three years of split confinement in connection with the shotgun slaying of her husband in March of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Of that, she&#8217;s been ordered to serve 210 days in jail. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But she apparently prays for her ex-husband&#8217;s family every day that they can find peace.  That&#8217;s swell of her.<\/p>\n<p>Respect for law and order continues to erode as society contemplates how serving liquor to teenagers is considered a far more serious offense than shooting someone in cold blood.<\/p>\n<p>(Links seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/abigvictory.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/party-mom.html\" target=\"_new\">a big victory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/drhelen.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/what-210-whole-days-in-jail-just-for.html\" target=\"_new\">Dr. Helen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let your child drink at home: 27 months in jail: Elisa Kelly did not want her teenage son, Ryan, or his friends to endanger their lives by drinking and driving. So she decided to let him have a 16th birthday party at home, where she would supply the beer, confiscate all the car keys and [&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-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18030,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}