{"id":169,"date":"2008-02-08T22:14:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-02-08T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T02:14:48","slug":"i-weep-for-our-language-part-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/i-weep-for-our-language-part-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I weep for our language (part 4)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, either for our language or for our system of jurisprudence &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/02\/08\/child.slain.ap\/index.html>Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In her opening statement last month, prosecutor Ama Dwimoh asked jurors to reject any attempt to demonize the girl, describing her as a defenseless, innocent child who weighed only 36 pounds at her death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t no daddy,&#8221; Dwimoh said of Rodriguez. &#8220;Daddies don&#8217;t blame their child for their actions. Murderers do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you need a basic command of English to be a prosecutor in the country&#8217;s largest municipal DA office?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, either for our language or for our system of jurisprudence &#8230; (Source) In her opening statement last month, prosecutor Ama Dwimoh asked jurors to reject any attempt to demonize the girl, describing her as a defenseless, innocent child who weighed only 36 pounds at her death. &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t no daddy,&#8221; Dwimoh said of Rodriguez. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[150,847],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-goofs","tag-grammar","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}