{"id":1575,"date":"2005-02-14T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2005-02-17T16:43:39","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T00:43:39","slug":"rescue-a-wildcat-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"rescue a wildcat, pay a fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"?p=852\">occasionally<\/a> <a href=\"?p=738#more-738\">ranted<\/a> that the war on wetbacks is wrecking the American spirit of casual charity.  The drug war, too, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/4150469\/detail.html\">doing its bit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe three men decided to rescue the animal so that it wouldn&#8217;t be hit by another car, and take it to a 24-hour veterinary clinic in Longmont.<\/p>\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>[Jason Lee] Laird, 21, and Zachariah Deming, 19, were ticketed for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>The injured mountain lion, which wildlife officers guessed was four or five months old, had to be euthanized.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/lastonespeaks.blogspot.com\/2005_01_30_lastonespeaks_archive.html#110746860677394176\">Libby  Spencer (Last One Speaks)<\/a>, cited in turn by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0002762\/2005\/02\/03.html#a753\">Pete Guither (Drug WarRant)<\/a>, whom I visited because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/archivesuo\/week_2005_02_06.html#005894\">Jim Henley (Unqualified Offerings)<\/a> recently blogrolled him.<\/p>\n<p><i>Later:<\/i> Could be worse; I did not notice on first reading that they were &#8220;ticketed&#8221; rather than &#8220;arrested&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have occasionally ranted that the war on wetbacks is wrecking the American spirit of casual charity. The drug war, too, is doing its bit: The three men decided to rescue the animal so that it wouldn&#8217;t be hit by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1575\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugwar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}