{"id":6739,"date":"2012-02-27T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:47:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6739","title":{"rendered":"Saw a ruse checkpoint last night, MO I-55, exit 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Marion, Illinois for a deposition in a civil case at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bop.gov\/locations\/institutions\/mar\/index.jsp\">USP<\/a>. Driving here last night in Missouri we saw a lighted MoDOT sign saying &#8220;Drug Checkpoint Ahead&#8221; right at exit 27 (State Highway A) on I-55 where there is absolutely nothing. There was a police car on the shoulder with red and blue lights on, and two cars up on the road at the exit. There was, of course, no drug checkpoint on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers in the Missouri Bootheel will have a few new cases this week. [People still fall for that? As long as there are dumb criminals, sure.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}