{"id":341,"date":"2004-06-21T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/land-of-the-free\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T18:30:33","slug":"land-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/land-of-the-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of the Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Feds haul passenger off cruise ship in cuffs for marshmallow incident\" \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-marsh20.html\">Feds haul passenger off cruise ship in cuffs for marshmallow incident<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>BY CATHERINE WILSON <\/p>\n<p>A teacher&#8217;s aide who forgot to put away her marshmallows and hot chocolate at Yellowstone National Park last <\/p>\n<p>year was <b>taken from her cruise ship cabin in handcuffs<\/b> and hauled before a judge Friday, <b><i>wrongfully<\/i> accused<\/b> of <\/p>\n<p>failing to pay the fine.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Clarke, 32, <b>crying and in leg shackles<\/b>, told the judge she was rousted at 6:30 a.m. by federal <\/p>\n<p>agents after the ship returned to Miami from Mexico. [She spent nearly nine hours in detention.] She insisted that she had been required <\/p>\n<p>to pay the $50 fine before she could leave Yellowstone, which has strict rules about food storage to prevent wildlife from eating human <\/p>\n<p>food. <\/p>\n<p>Customs agents meet all cruise ships arriving from foreign ports and run random checks of passenger lists, and a warrant <\/p>\n<p>claiming Clarke had not paid the fine was found in <b>the federal database<\/b>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This seems like an overreaction, to <\/p>\n<p>terrorize someone over such an offense. I hope she sues John AssKraft. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds haul passenger off cruise ship in cuffs for marshmallow incident BY CATHERINE WILSON A teacher&#8217;s aide who forgot to put away her marshmallows and hot chocolate at Yellowstone National Park last year was taken from her cruise ship cabin in handcuffs and hauled before a judge Friday, wrongfully accused of failing to pay the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/land-of-the-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Land of the Free<\/span> <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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}