{"id":2,"date":"2004-11-29T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-08T19:38:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:38:49","slug":"spectator-article-doing-the-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"spectator article doing the rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In irate chap in the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepower.squarespace.com\/mrpower2\/2004\/10\/26\/no-its-banker-with-a-b.html\">spectator<\/a> has been bemoaning the state of british policing whilst<br \/>\nclaiming that it is now illegal to carry a swiss-army knife. This<br \/>\narticle has cropped up in a number of newsgroups, namely those under<br \/>\nuk.rec, whose inhabitants are in the habit of carrying knives for<br \/>\nentirely benign reasons.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was mostly on the side of the protagonist until I read <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepower.squarespace.com\/mrpower2\/2004\/10\/26\/no-its-banker-with-a-b.html\">this.<\/a> It hadn&#8217;t occured to me until that point that you<br \/>\nreally don&#8217;t have any reason to carry a collapsable baton unless your<br \/>\nintent on beating someone up. Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In irate chap in the spectator has been bemoaning the state of british policing whilst claiming that it is now illegal to carry a swiss-army knife. This article has cropped up in a number of newsgroups, namely those under uk.rec, whose inhabitants are in the habit of carrying knives for entirely benign reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}