{"id":1554,"date":"2010-12-29T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2010-12-29T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:59:21","slug":"after-130-years-will-billy-the-kid-finally-get-a-governors-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/12\/29\/after-130-years-will-billy-the-kid-finally-get-a-governors-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"After 130 years, will Billy the Kid finally get a governor&#8217;s pardon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering a pardon for celebrated outlaw Billy the Kid. An informal e-mail poll shows support. But time is running out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/var\/ezflow_site\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/1229_billythekid\/9261412-1-eng-US\/1229_billythekid_full_380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Guarino, Staff writer \/ December 29, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Billy the Kid, the mythologized gunslinger whose bloody exploits have been both romanticized and condemned, may receive his pardon from New Mexico\u2019s governor this week \u2013 130 years after historians say it was promised. Bill Richardson, a long-time enthusiast of Old West lore who is leaving office after eight years as governor, polled his constituents via the state website, seeking their thoughts on whether the Kid deserves a posthumous reprieve for court testimony he gave in an 1879 murder.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office reported receiving more than 800 e-mails, mostly in favor of the pardon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2010\/1229\/After-130-years-will-Billy-the-Kid-finally-get-a-governor-s-pardon\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering a pardon for celebrated outlaw Billy the Kid. An informal e-mail poll shows support. But time is running out. By Mark Guarino, Staff writer \/ December 29, 2010 Billy the Kid, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/12\/29\/after-130-years-will-billy-the-kid-finally-get-a-governors-pardon\/\">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-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}