{"id":15244,"date":"2014-12-30T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T17:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15244"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T17:54:26","slug":"wapo-radley-balkos-the-watch-blog-horrifying-civil-liberties-predictions-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15244","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: &#8220;Horrifying civil liberties predictions for 2015&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/12\/30\/horrifying-civil-liberties-predictions-for-2015\/\">Horrifying civil liberties predictions for 2015<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How bad could it get? Maybe it&#8217;s best not to ask.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve made it this far, you\u2019ve probably already figured out the joke. None of these are predictions for 2015. They\u2019re all things that actually happened in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Balko did the same for us at the end of 2013, with the parade of horribles that he predicted, but actually already happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Horrifying civil liberties predictions for 2015: How bad could it get? Maybe it&#8217;s best not to ask. . . . If you\u2019ve made it this far, you\u2019ve probably already figured out the joke. None &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15245,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244\/revisions\/15245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}