{"id":215,"date":"2009-08-02T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T03:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-08-02T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T03:14:22","slug":"a-thoughtless-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/a-thoughtless-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thoughtless Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since when is punching a random stranger for $10 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/10-dare-led-to-chinese-students-death-20090803-e6kq.html\">thoughtless prank<\/a>? It&#8217;s thoughtless, yes, but where&#8217;s the prank bit? Answers.com defines the noun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/prank\">prank<\/a> as &#8220;a mischievous trick or practical joke&#8221;. Well, randomly punching someone isn&#8217;t really a mischievous trick &#8212; it&#8217;s bewildering yes &#8212; but not mischievous. Nor is it a practical joke, for reasons that should be obvious, but apparently &#8212; I&#8217;m looking at you Justice Stephen Kaye &#8212;\u00a0aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since when is punching a random stranger for $10 a thoughtless prank? It&#8217;s thoughtless, yes, but where&#8217;s the prank bit? Answers.com defines the noun prank as &#8220;a mischievous trick or practical joke&#8221;. Well, randomly punching someone isn&#8217;t really a mischievous trick &#8212; it&#8217;s bewildering yes &#8212; but not mischievous. Nor is it a practical joke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[125,127,126],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-justice-stephen-kaye","tag-prank","tag-thoughtless-prank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}