{"id":290,"date":"2007-06-16T20:51:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=290"},"modified":"2007-06-16T20:53:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T02:53:49","slug":"good-riddance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Nifong has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LAW\/06\/16\/duke.lacrosse\/index.html\">disbarred<\/a>.  I just hope that the people who were so zealous on behalf of the lacrosse players will find time to advocate for the hundreds or thousands of men &#8211; mostly poor and black &#8211; who are behind bars right now under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, he&#8217;s not the only showboat prosecutor out there. There are many out there, including one who indirectly caused the death of a friend of my mother&#8217;s. And the reason they showboat for political gain is because it works. After all, one of them is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudy_Giuliani\">leading candidate<\/a> for President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Nifong has been disbarred. I just hope that the people who were so zealous on behalf of the lacrosse players will find time to advocate for the hundreds or thousands of men &#8211; mostly poor and black &#8211; who are behind bars right now under similar circumstances. Keep in mind, he&#8217;s not the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Riddance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}