{"id":1388,"date":"2012-01-23T21:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2012-03-24T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T00:14:06","slug":"actually-yes-ignorance-of-the-law-is-an-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Actually yes, ignorance of the law is an excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By George Sand<\/p>\n<p>(Reprinted with author&#8217;s permission from Copblock.org)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pigpicture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1389\" title=\"pigpicture\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pigpicture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are countless laws. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not in the mathematical sense \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it is technically possible to count the laws in existence, but based on a colloquial and general use of the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153countless\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it is not really feasible for someone to count every law. Just this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45819570\/ns\/today-today_news\/t\/new-laws-toughen-rules-abortions-immigrants-voters\/#.Txd5WaXWbTQ\">40,000 laws were passed<\/a> and are set to go into effect. On the other hand, we rarely hear news about laws being repealed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/12341\/actually-yes-ignorance-of-the-law-is-an-excuse\/\">(Read rest of story here)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Sand (Reprinted with author&#8217;s permission from Copblock.org) There are countless laws. Literally. Maybe not in the mathematical sense \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it is technically possible to count the laws in existence, but based on a colloquial and general use of the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153countless\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it is not really feasible for someone to count every law. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,1,6,80],"tags":[486,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}