{"id":514,"date":"2007-05-08T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T02:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/1178678444621.html"},"modified":"2007-05-08T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T02:40:44","slug":"blogentry-death-row-inmate-cant-make-a-last-good-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Death row inmate can&#039;t make a last good gesture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, somebody explain to me the logic of <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/08\/workman.execution\/index.html&#034;>this decision<\/a>.  A Tennessee man scheduled for execution said that he did not want his final meal, and they should order a pizza and give it to a homeless person. It&#039;s unclear from the story whether he had a specific person in mind or was just saying it generically.  The prison, however, won&#039;t do it.  &#034;The taxpayers don&#039;t give us permission to donate to charity,&#034; is the quote.<\/p>\n<p\/>Lame.  I always thought it had more to do with &#034;last wish&#034;.  He wants a pizza given to a homeless person.  It&#039;s not like the prison itself is deciding to take his meal from him and give it to charity.  It&#039;s what the guy wants.  I don&#039;t understand the logic of that at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, somebody explain to me the logic of this decision. A Tennessee man scheduled for execution said that he did not want his final meal, and they should order a pizza and give it to a homeless person. It&#039;s unclear from the story whether he had a specific person in mind or was just saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}