{"id":2327,"date":"2020-08-25T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2020-08-25T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:26:04","slug":"a-thin-blue-line-is-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"a &#8220;thin blue line&#8221; is emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flags-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flags-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flags-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flags-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flags-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flags.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8220;blue line&#8221; flag   &#8230;photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s starting to dot towns around the area is what&#8217;s called: &#8220;blue line flags.&#8221;  I just wrote a story for one of the local newspapers about this.  The flag is meant as a show of solidarity with the police all over the country.  And the blue line is symbolic of the &#8220;thin blue line&#8221; between law abiding citizenry, and lawlessness\/chaos.  While there are, indeed, a few bad police, as there are a few bad people in virtually every profession, overall police are, not only upstanding, but a tremendous benefit to the community.  But now they feel like they&#8217;re constantly under a microscope, often have their hands tied when responding, and so on.  And given all this, how many are simply going to get out of the profession, and how many younger people are not going to want to get into the profession?  A climate of lawlessness is growing in our metropolitan areas, and the next venues will be suburbia and rural America.  If I were president, I&#8217;d step in to immediately quell this &#8212; through a number of different, and assertive, channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s starting to dot towns around the area is what&#8217;s called: &#8220;blue line flags.&#8221; I just wrote a story for one of the local newspapers about this. The flag is meant as a show of solidarity with the police all <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2327\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}