{"id":10364,"date":"2005-01-26T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10364"},"modified":"2005-01-26T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T17:40:48","slug":"the-news,-blogable-or-not?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/26\/the-news,-blogable-or-not?\/","title":{"rendered":"The news, blogable or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a bit of a crime and justice report junkie, even without a TV.  By the way, the TV was not stolen and I&#8217;m not Amish.  There&#8217;s just no TV set here, OK?  Some people don&#8217;t have telephones either.<\/p>\n<p>Most crimes that the local news covers are robberies, break-ins, assaults and such.  National crime stories involve terror plots, kidnappings or serial killers.  While more gripping, relishing such stories is on the creepy side.  International stories, though, are a treasure trove of entertainment.  The fact that the crime didn&#8217;t occur on my continent provides an appropriate backdrop for laughter.  Lots of it.<\/p>\n<p>Today I turn to Brussels, where a bank robber serving a four year sentence on armed robbery set a new precedent. Certainly, armed robberies happen in the United States.  But this armed robber <a href='http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/01\/26\/wexp26.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2005\/01\/26\/ixnewstop.html'>wrote off the cost of the gun<\/a> used in the crime for tax purposes and the court system ( presumably the same one that sentenced him ) upheld the deduction.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I just can&#8217;t make this stuff up. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a weekly entry that feature bizarre international crime and justice stories might be of interest?   Please sound off in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a bit of a crime and justice report junkie, even without a TV. By the way, the TV was not stolen and I&#8217;m not Amish. There&#8217;s just no TV set here, OK? Some people don&#8217;t have telephones either. Most crimes that the local news covers are robberies, break-ins, assaults and such. National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}