{"id":666,"date":"2006-03-23T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T11:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2006-03-23T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T11:35:09","slug":"texas-cops-fishing-a-little-farther-upstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/texas-cops-fishing-a-little-farther-upstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Cops Fishing a Little Farther Upstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the police in Texas are tired of waiting for drunks to be drunk outside the bar, and have started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11965237\/from\/RS.1\/\">arresting drunk people inside the bar<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not legal to be drunk in public of course, so this makes sense I guess.  They are trying to protect people from hurting themselves and others, before they drink and drive, or step in front of a bus or something.<\/p>\n<p>It just seems wrong somehow doesn&#8217;t it?  I&#8217;m not sure why this strikes me that way, it must hit me in my liver or something.  My mis-spent youthful self would be outraged, but my doddering, tired, 3 beer is the limit, middle-aged self is shaking a mental stick and thinking; &#8220;Good for them!  Those young&#8217;uns shouldn&#8217;t be out having any fun!  Arrest them all, I say! In my day we didn&#8217;t have beer, we had boot polish.  Where do you think the term &#8220;Polished off another one&#8221; came from, anyway?  I need a nap.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the police in Texas are tired of waiting for drunks to be drunk outside the bar, and have started arresting drunk people inside the bar. It&#8217;s not legal to be drunk in public of course, so this makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/texas-cops-fishing-a-little-farther-upstream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}