{"id":394,"date":"2010-01-18T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-01-18T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:18:38","slug":"the-fact-of-the-matter-is-that-everyone-wants-people-who-break-the-law-to-be-treated-more-harshly-until-its-your-mother-or-father-or-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The fact of the matter is that everyone wants people who break the law to be treated more harshly, until it&#8217;s your mother or father or brother.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wise words from St. Joseph Superior Court Chief Judge Michael Scopelitis, as quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/article\/20100117\/News01\/1170340\/-1\/XML\">this South Bend Tribune story<\/a> questioning whether the legal system is tough enough, after a drunk driver with multiple DUIs on his record recently caused the deaths of a local police officer and his K-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wise words from St. Joseph Superior Court Chief Judge Michael Scopelitis, as quoted in this South Bend Tribune story questioning whether the legal system is tough enough, after a drunk driver with multiple DUIs on his record recently caused the deaths of a local police officer and his K-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}