{"id":311,"date":"2008-11-24T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-11-24T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:12:40","slug":"but_i_like_barry_manilow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"But I Like Barry Manilow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then someone comes up with a punishment that fits the crime.&nbsp; This is one of those stories.&nbsp; According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/22\/noise-violators-fort-lupton-sentened-listen-barry-\/?partner=RSS\">Rocky Mountain News<\/a>, a Fort Lupton Municipal Judge has been sentencing noise violators to listening to an hour of music they don&#8217;t like.&nbsp; The list of music includes Barry Manilow, Barney the Dinosaur, and the Platters.&nbsp; This punishment has cut down on the number of repeat offenders.&nbsp; Can we apply this to the person in the car next to you whose bass is turned up so loud your car is vibrating?&nbsp; I like Barry Manilow.&nbsp; Does that mean that if I am every guilty of a noise violation, I have to listen to an hour of rap, hip hop,&nbsp; or heavy metal?&nbsp; That would be enough to prevent me from doing anything that would be considered a noise violation.&nbsp; I think this is a great way to cut down the number of offenders on what is essentially a nuisance crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then someone comes up with a punishment that fits the crime.&nbsp; This is one of those stories.&nbsp; According to the Rocky Mountain News, a Fort Lupton Municipal Judge has been sentencing noise violators to listening to an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}