{"id":4025,"date":"2007-09-21T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2017-11-24T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:36:45","slug":"so-which-animals-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/so-which-animals-are-more-equal-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"So Which Animals Are More Equal Than Others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Little, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams, kills a woman while admittedly driving under the influence (BAC .19) and is sentenced to <a href=\"http:\/\/asp.usatoday.com\/community\/utils\/idmap\/12276897.story\" target=\"_new\">90 days in jail<\/a> for involuntary homicide.<\/p>\n<p>William Anderson, nobody in particular, kills a police officer while allegedly driving under the influence (BAC .154) and is sentenced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/illinoisnews\/story\/C961576833EFFDB88625735D000FE5F5?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">7.5 years in prison<\/a> for aggravated DUI.<\/p>\n<p>Just so we plebes are clear, did Leonard Little get a lighter sentence because he was a football player, or did William Anderson get a heavier sentence because the victim was a police officer instead of a suburban mother?<\/p>\n<p>Because these &#8220;nuances&#8221; of the law kind of look like special treatment for someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Little, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams, kills a woman while admittedly driving under the influence (BAC .19) and is sentenced to 90 days in jail for involuntary homicide. William Anderson, nobody in particular, kills a police officer while allegedly driving under the influence (BAC .154) and is sentenced to 7.5 years in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17824,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/17824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}