{"id":1017,"date":"2008-01-27T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/a-must-read"},"modified":"2008-01-27T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:09:05","slug":"a-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/a-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"A Must-Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as the media falls into the trap of over-hyping baseless fears and reporting stupid news, I believe investigative journalism must be one of the centerpieces of a robust free society. And recently, the Seattle Times has been producing some excellent investigative journalism.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004147460_rbstevens270.html\">recent Seattle Times article<\/a> details how many UW football players &#8212; especially Jerramy Stevens &#8212; got free passes from King County prosecutors, school officials, and coaches despite numerous run-ins with the law in non-trivial cases ranging from assault to rape to <abbr title=\"Driving While Intoxicated\">DWI<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself feeling sick after learning about how damning evidence was ignored and every punishment was put off with flimsy excuses. This is the world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as the media falls into the trap of over-hyping baseless fears and reporting stupid news, I believe investigative journalism must be one of the centerpieces of a robust free society. And recently, the Seattle Times has been producing some excellent investigative journalism. A recent Seattle Times article details how many UW football players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,11],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}