{"id":1248,"date":"2008-03-28T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1248"},"modified":"2008-03-28T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T17:24:29","slug":"no-the-whole-premise-is-silly-and-its-very-badly-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1248","title":{"rendered":"No, The Whole Premise Is Silly And It&#8217;s Very Badly Written."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via slog&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/03\/27\/wwombat127.xml\"><strong>Man said &#8216;wombat rape&#8217; led to accent change<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"254\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/silly_colonel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Right.&nbsp; Now, I&#8217;ve noticed a tendency for this precinct to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I&#8217;m not having things getting silly. Those last two reports I received were very silly indeed, and that last one about the wombat was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do. Except perhaps my wife. And some of her friends. Oh yes, and Captain Johnson&#8230; Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that&#8217;s beside the point! Now! Let&#8217;s have a good clean healthy outdoor crime report. Get some air into your lungs. Ten nine eight and all that.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via slog&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp; Man said &#8216;wombat rape&#8217; led to accent change A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time. Right.&nbsp; Now, I&#8217;ve noticed a tendency for this precinct to get rather silly. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}