{"id":361,"date":"2008-03-30T23:36:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T03:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-03-30T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T03:59:03","slug":"eavesdropping-in-annapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Eavesdropping in Annapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joannejacobs.com\/2008\/03\/28\/discipline-problems-solved\/\">Joanne Jacobs<\/a> writes of a (not entirely serious) proposal that high school students be fitted with shock collars to encourage good discipline. That reminded me of something I overheard in a restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland 15 or 20 years ago. Two 40ish female teachers were lunching at the next table, and one of them said &#8220;I think we ought to bring back capital punishment to the schools! Sorry, I meant <em>corporal<\/em> punishment &#8212; I always make that mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two policemen were lunching at another table, and one of them said &#8220;Hey look! We made today&#8217;s paper.&#8221; After a pause to read the story, he said &#8220;It says we &#8216;subdued&#8217; the suspect&#8221;, and the other policeman said in a satisfied tone of voice&#8221;Yeh, we subdued the Hell out of him&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Jacobs writes of a (not entirely serious) proposal that high school students be fitted with shock collars to encourage good discipline. That reminded me of something I overheard in a restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland 15 or 20 years ago. Two 40ish female teachers were lunching at the next table, and one of them said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}