{"id":21864,"date":"2015-01-04T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=21864"},"modified":"2015-01-04T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:58:10","slug":"the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[A short thought from Dr. Pournelle as he continues his recovery. You can send him your support via the <a title=\"Well-Wishing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/well-wishing\/\">Well Wishing<\/a> page. You might also find some of his past posts interesting; a random selection is shown on the right column. &#8211; Editor]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The [US] Constitution is not a suicide pact, but apparently some think it is.<br \/>\nNote they are having trouble trying the Boston Marathon bomber, because<br \/>\neveryone in the city knows he did it.\u00a0 One day someone will commit a crime<br \/>\non TV, everyone will see it or a rerun, and the only people eligible for the<br \/>\njury will be halfwits.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Anglo-Norman juries were drawn from local populations, and were<br \/>\nexpected to know of the crime and quite possibly the defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A short thought from Dr. Pournelle as he continues his recovery. You can send him your support via the Well Wishing page. You might also find some of his past posts interesting; a random selection is shown on the right column. &#8211; Editor] The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/the-constitution\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-view"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}