{"id":9246,"date":"2008-11-13T04:54:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T09:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2008-11-13T04:54:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T09:54:31","slug":"the-t-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9246","title":{"rendered":"THE &#8220;T&#8221; WORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s torture.<\/p>\n<p>My friends at the <em>Fayetteville Observer<\/em> penned an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/article?id=310214\">editorial<\/a> today on the use of Tasers in the schools.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But law enforcement professionals across the land should be held to uniform standards based on two principles. Using electric shock to coerce or punish is torture. And use of these weapons should be restricted to situations in which the officer\u2019s only alternative would be to draw his gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth a click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s torture. My friends at the Fayetteville Observer penned an excellent editorial today on the use of Tasers in the schools. But law enforcement professionals across the land should be held to uniform standards based on two principles. Using electric shock to coerce or punish is torture. And use of these weapons should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9247,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions\/9247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}