{"id":1706,"date":"2006-03-16T04:42:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T11:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/constitutional-stop-sign\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T19:43:54","slug":"constitutional-stop-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/constitutional-stop-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Stop Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/guest_columns\/441777opinion03-15-06.htm\">ABQjournal: Automated Traffic Fines Run Constitutional Stop Sign<\/a> By William H. White, Edgewood Municipal Judge<\/p>\n<p>We would all like to think that, if freedom fails, it will be in a grand struggle with some titanic and obvious evil. <strong>The sad truth is, however, that freedom is lost one tiny piece at a time<\/strong> to the expediency of the small-minded functionary or the arrogance of the public servant who thinks that John Locke must be a device for securing the bathroom door.<\/p>\n<p>    It is our job as citizens to demand better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Automated Traffic Fines Run Constitutional Stop Sign By William H. White, Edgewood Municipal Judge We would all like to think that, if freedom fails, it will be in a grand struggle with some titanic and obvious evil. The sad truth is, however, that freedom is lost one tiny piece at a time to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/constitutional-stop-sign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constitutional Stop Sign<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}