{"id":1316,"date":"2010-07-21T19:47:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2010-07-21T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:49:22","slug":"the-new-inquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/07\/21\/the-new-inquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Inquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense.<\/h3>\n<p>A councillor faces suspension for dismissing Scientology as &#8220;stupid&#8221;; another is convicted of racial harassment for calling a colleague a coconut; a householder is made to feel like a racist for objecting to a gipsy site near his home. Every day, it seems, brings another tale of how comments that a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing worse than rudeness \u2013 or simply a difference of opinion \u2013 have either been criminalised or considered a justification for disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/telegraph-view\/7903526\/The-new-Inquisition.html\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense. A councillor faces suspension for dismissing Scientology as &#8220;stupid&#8221;; another is convicted of racial harassment for calling a colleague a coconut; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/07\/21\/the-new-inquisition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}