{"id":5332,"date":"2016-02-03T20:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2022-04-27T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:58:24","slug":"do-sex-offenders-deserve-a-scarlet-letter-on-their-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"Do sex offenders deserve a scarlet letter on their passport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-56b1518d\/turbine\/la-ed-0203-sex-offenders-20160203-001\/750\/750x422\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=caption>(David Paul Morris \/ Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;After rousing themselves from the 30-plus-year bad trip that was the war on drugs \u2014 or rather, the war on drug users \u2014 many Americans in and out of elected office looked around for someone else to persecute. Someone, somewhere, must be so depraved and hateful that liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans could join in common cause to vilify them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-0203-sex-offenders-20160203-story.html\">editorial<\/a> by the editorial board of the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(David Paul Morris \/ Getty Images) &#8220;After rousing themselves from the 30-plus-year bad trip that was the war on drugs \u2014 or rather, the war on drug users \u2014 many Americans in and out of elected office looked around for someone else to persecute. Someone, somewhere, must be so depraved and hateful that liberals and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5332\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do sex offenders deserve a scarlet letter on their passport?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9318,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}