{"id":286,"date":"2005-06-24T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T11:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=280"},"modified":"2005-06-24T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T11:18:03","slug":"62205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"6\/22\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled west to Carpentersville, Illinois.  A man-on-the street here told me he&#8217;d just gotten a speeding ticket &#8212; in the mail.  He said he&#8217;d recently been on the interstate and a computerzed surveillance camera and attached radar gun, took his picture and clocked his speed.  &#8220;Yeah, I was probably speeding,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;But doesn&#8217;t, like, someone have to catch you anymore?&#8221;  <strong>Note: <\/strong> This man said with the ticket he got a letter that included an explanation that the average American is filmed by a surveillance camera (grocery store, gas station, bank, interstate&#8230;) up to 75 times a day.  I asked the man if he&#8217;d read George Orwell&#8217;s book: &#8220;1984&#8221; &#8212; about &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled west to Carpentersville, Illinois. A man-on-the street here told me he&#8217;d just gotten a speeding ticket &#8212; in the mail. He said he&#8217;d recently been on the interstate and a computerzed surveillance camera and attached radar gun, took <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=286\"><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-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}