{"id":2974,"date":"2010-03-04T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2010-03-04T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:03:51","slug":"the-jokes-just-write-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/the-jokes-just-write-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"The jokes just write themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivefeetoffury.com\/:entry:fivefeet-2010-03-04-0007\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FiveFeetOfFurycuzMetricIsForSissies+%28five+feet+of+fury.+%28cuz+metric+is+for+sissies%29%29\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Shaidle&#8217;s blog<\/a>, a court case that was custom-designed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta\/woman-charged-with-killing-344266.html\" target=\"_blank\">certain political campaigns<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Arelisha Bridges was ordered held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. She is scheduled for a preliminary hearing later this month on charges of felony murder, murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Bridges claimed she was unemployed. But records show she is a lobbyist for an organization called the National Declaration for Domestic Violence Order; its Web site says the group is pushing legislation to create a database of those convicted of sex crimes or domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And remember, guns don&#8217;t kill people: lobbyists for anti-domestic violence groups do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of Kathy Shaidle&#8217;s blog, a court case that was custom-designed for certain political campaigns: A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence. Arelisha Bridges was ordered held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,13],"tags":[343,156,49],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-usa","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fail","tag-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-LY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}