{"id":971,"date":"2004-06-30T05:48:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/no-tongue-splitting-in-delaware\/"},"modified":"2004-06-30T05:48:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T10:48:03","slug":"no-tongue-splitting-in-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/no-tongue-splitting-in-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"no tongue-splitting in delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>because i just did a <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/kurtz_isnt_a_terrorist_but_well_charge_him_with_something.html\" class=\"broken_link\">rant<\/a> on too many laws and <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/creative_prosecution.html\">creative prosecution<\/a>,  i thought it was worth noting that the delaware legislature has decided that tongue-splitting should be illegal in delaware (except when done by a doctor or dentist)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040629_1780.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Del. Lawmakers Limit Tongue Splitting<\/a> [ap via abc news]<\/div>\n<p>While the practice is rare,  if not nonexistent,  in Delaware, lawmakers decided it would be wise to nip it in the bud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had never heard of tongue splitting until I saw this bill,&#8221; said Senate sponsor James Vaughn, D-Clayton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>apparently, it&#8217;s already illegal in texas and illinois, and legislation has been proposed in tennessee, west virginia, new york, indiana and kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>i guess it&#8217;s a good thing our legislators are spending their time on these important issues of our times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>because i just did a rant on too many laws and creative prosecution, i thought it was worth noting that the delaware legislature has decided that tongue-splitting should be illegal in delaware (except when done by a doctor or dentist)&#8230; Del. Lawmakers Limit Tongue Splitting [ap via abc news] While the practice is rare, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}