{"id":3340,"date":"2010-06-14T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2010-06-14T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:54:33","slug":"whistling-like-a-boiling-kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Whistling like a boiling kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not well.<\/p>\n<p>No!<\/p>\n<p>Please, you have to at least try to keep that massive outpouring of grief and sympathy in check.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">flesh wound<\/span> tummy bug and, I&#8217;m sure, I shall be back to my normal rude health tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But being of not rude health is obviously affecting my head.<\/p>\n<p>Or my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Or both.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC News story\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/isle_of_man\/10310838.stm\" target=\"_blank\">This story on the BBC<\/a> has got me absolutely furious &#8211; here&#8217;s the gist, in a copy and paste kind of way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A teenaged boy who raped two seven-year-old boys has  been given a three-year community rehabilitation order.<\/p>\n<p>The youth, 16, who cannot be named because of his age, admitted  two counts of rape against the boys at Manchester Crown Court at an  earlier hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The boy, from Longsight in Manchester, was also given a  six-month curfew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now ask yourself these two simple questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do you think this boy&#8217;s punishment would have been the same if he had raped two seven-year-old *girls*?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think the courts should punish sexual assaults on males with the same degree of severity as sexual assaults on females?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually finding it very difficult to keep a lid on my anger over this.<\/p>\n<p>Close to boiling over.<\/p>\n<p>Might actually explode.<\/p>\n<p>Or spontaneously combust.<\/p>\n<p>Or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not well. No! Please, you have to at least try to keep that massive outpouring of grief and sympathy in check. It&#8217;s just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}