{"id":2333,"date":"2009-06-12T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2009-06-12T20:28:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:28:34","slug":"hard_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Hard Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self: if I find myself in front of a judge facing serious prison time, don&#8217;t try using the pity-me-I&#8217;m-a-poor-cripple defense because the judge probably won&#8217;t buy it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/47882357.html?elr=KArksUUUU\">A Minnesota man with quadriplegia recently learned this harsh lesson<\/a> when a federal judge recently sentenced him to five years plus change for possessing child pornography. The judge ruled out home confinement for the man because it wouldn&#8217;t be sufficient punishment and I can&#8217;t disagree with that sentiment. But I can&#8217;t imagine he will get the same level of care he received at home. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how well I would adjust to prison life. Maybe I&#8217;d be the jailhouse lawyer; the guy everyone comes to when they need help writing a letter to the warden or parole board. But whatever I earned in cigarettes would probably have to go to the hired muscle protecting my&#8230;er&#8230;honor. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d better make sure I don&#8217;t have any unpaid parking tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Rose for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self: if I find myself in front of a judge facing serious prison time, don&#8217;t try using the pity-me-I&#8217;m-a-poor-cripple defense because the judge probably won&#8217;t buy it. A Minnesota man with quadriplegia recently learned this harsh lesson when a federal judge recently sentenced him to five years plus change for possessing child pornography. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2333' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}