{"id":882,"date":"2011-08-19T13:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T04:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=882"},"modified":"2011-08-19T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T04:25:27","slug":"new-york-times-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"New York Times (August 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, \u201cthe thousands who were arrested last week for looting and for more violent crimes should face the penalties that are prescribed by law.\u201d It is, however, petty and misguided to try to further persecute them as Prime Minister Cameron has suggested by \u201ccutting off government benefits even to minor offenders and evicting them.\u201d The Prime Minister should focus on restarting the economy and creating jobs. \u201cMaking poor people poorer will not make them less likely to steal. Making them, or their families, homeless will not promote respect for the law. Trying to shut down the Internet in neighborhoods would be an appalling violation of civil liberties and a threat to public safety, denying vital real-time information to frightened residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, \u201cthe thousands who were arrested last week for looting and for more violent crimes should face the penalties that are prescribed by law.\u201d It is, however, petty and misguided to try to further persecute them as Prime Minister Cameron has suggested by \u201ccutting off government benefits even to minor offenders and evicting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[304,361,13,182,241,118],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-benefits","tag-cameron","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-riots","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}