{"id":15960,"date":"2017-05-18T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15960"},"modified":"2017-05-18T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:21:04","slug":"small-updates-and-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15960","title":{"rendered":"Small updates and notes."},"content":{"rendered":"

Rear Adm. Robert Gilbeau has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.<\/a> Noted here because:<\/p>\n

1) His conviction was for lying to investigators. What did someone once say? Trying to remember, on the tip of my tongue…Oh, yeah:<\/p>\n

Really, seriously, just shut the fuck up.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2) This is more fallout from the “Fat Leonard” scandal<\/a>, covered both here and on Battleswarm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the record, I don’t have a damn thing to say about Roger Ailes<\/a>: I don’t watch the news, on any network, unless I’m someplace where I don’t control the means of video reproduction.<\/p>\n

In case you haven’t had enough of the Moors Murders, the NYT<\/strong> has chosen to publish a nice historical retrospective<\/a>. I say that with only a small amount of sarcasm: it’s probably useful if you are a true crime buff who doesn’t have children and won’t lose sleep over the details. For the rest of you, well, content warning.<\/p>\n

After a tense nine hours of deliberations, a jury acquitted Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby of a first-degree manslaughter charge in the death of Terence Crutcher.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rear Adm. Robert Gilbeau has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Noted here because: 1) His conviction was for lying to investigators. What did someone once say? Trying to remember, on the tip of my tongue…Oh, yeah: Really, seriously, just shut the fuck up. 2) This is more fallout from the “Fat Leonard” scandal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,3,23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cops","category-guns","category-law","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}