{"id":4046,"date":"2011-09-21T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2011-09-21T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:19:16","slug":"4046","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"All coked up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s puritanical, prohibitionist laws regarding drugs are deeply flawed. I found this arresting image as I peeked back at old NPR stories I&#8217;d missed. This fellow had a kilogram of Cocaine inside him. 72 containers worth.<\/p>\n<p>This would-be drug smuggler survived after surrendering his goodies with the help of powerful laxitives. He was lucky not be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatches\/globalpost-blogs\/que-pasa\/mexico-horror-thirty-five-corpses-dumped\"> in Mexico<\/a>. Decriminalization in America could be as miraculous as Jesus turning water into wine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2011\/09\/16\/cocaine_brazil1_custom.jpg?t=1316186164&#038;s=4\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s puritanical, prohibitionist laws regarding drugs are deeply flawed. I found this arresting image as I peeked back at old NPR stories I&#8217;d missed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,91,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-justice","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}