{"id":745,"date":"2009-08-15T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2009-08-15T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T17:53:36","slug":"something-is-happening-here-but-you-dont-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2009\/08\/something-is-happening-here-but-you-dont-know-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Is Happening Here, But You Don&#8217;t Know What It Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/reason\/HitandRun\/~3\/4qXHmgLhjVM\/135452.html\">Something Is Happening Here, But You Don&#8217;t Know What It Is&#8230;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Seems to me the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iy8jnlcZu7jfNUS3KQ5phFhctnBQD9A2UAHO1\">media accounts of this story<\/a> are missing the point. Yes, it\u2019s amusing and a bit surreal to picture Bob Dylan wandering around a local neighborhood near where he\u2019s giving a concert. But now everyone\u2019s having a good laugh about how two local police officers had no idea who Dylan was when they stopped and detained him after some residents reported an elderly man acting \u201csuspiciously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know.  I find it pretty depressing. There was a time when we condescendingly used the term \u201cyour papers, please\u201d to distinguish ourselves from Eastern Block countries and other authoritarian states. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/03-5554.ZS.html\">Post-<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/03-5554.ZS.html\">Hiibel<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/03-5554.ZS.html\">,<\/a> America has become a place where a harmless, 68-year-old man out on a stroll can be stopped, interrogated, detained, and forced to produce proof of identification to state authorities, despite having committed no crime.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just don\u2019t see the punchline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something Is Happening Here, But You Don&#8217;t Know What It Is&#8230;: Seems to me the media accounts of this story are missing the point. Yes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-c1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}