{"id":331,"date":"2003-12-16T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T17:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/keeping_america_safe\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T17:07:27","slug":"keeping_america_safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/keeping_america_safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping America Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs may be seeping in from Mexico as fast as ever, but narcotics agents have scored an important victory in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2003\/12\/16\/MNGEA3O52I1.DTL\">war against vibrators<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Texas housewife is in big trouble with the law for selling a vibrator to a pair of undercover cops, and the Brisbane vibrator company she works for says Texas is an &#8220;antiquated place&#8221; with more than its share of &#8220;prudes.&#8221;<br \/>\nJoanne Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher and mother of three, was in a county court in Cleburne, Texas, on Monday to answer obscenity charges for selling the vibrator to undercover narcotics officers posing as a dysfunctional married couple in search of a sex aid.<br \/>\nWebb, a saleswoman for Passion Parties of Brisbane, faces a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Insert your own war on drugs\/war on terror\/Second Amendment punchline here.]<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_12_14_atrios_archive.html#107159086537835051\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/keeping_america_safe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Keeping America Safe\"><p>Drugs may be seeping in from Mexico as fast as ever, but narcotics agents have scored an important victory in the war against vibrators: A Texas housewife is in big trouble with the law for selling a vibrator to a pair of undercover cops, and the Brisbane vibrator company she works for says Texas is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}