{"id":9263,"date":"2005-10-31T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/10\/31\/even-scarier\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T20:56:15","slug":"even-scarier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/31\/even-scarier\/","title":{"rendered":"Even scarier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or if you really want to be scared, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/3quarksdaily.blogs.com\/3quarksdaily\/2005\/10\/edward_sampson_.html\">3 Quarks Daily<\/a> to read Abbas&#8217;s story of being arrested at JFK airport for beating himself up several years before.  It should give pause to people who think that legal representation for suspected criminals is a sign of bleeding-heart weakness.  Not, apparently, that being represented by a public defender is any better than simply throwing yourself on the mercy of the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or if you really want to be scared, visit 3 Quarks Daily to read Abbas&#8217;s story of being arrested at JFK airport for beating himself up several years before. It should give pause to people who think that legal representation for suspected criminals is a sign of bleeding-heart weakness. Not, apparently, that being represented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}