{"id":8238,"date":"2003-04-09T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/09\/no-frown-down-town-or-in-a-gown-with-a-crown-just-be-a-clown\/"},"modified":"2003-04-09T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T15:06:19","slug":"no-frown-down-town-or-in-a-gown-with-a-crown-just-be-a-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/no-frown-down-town-or-in-a-gown-with-a-crown-just-be-a-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"No frown down town or in a gown with a crown, just be a clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Palo Alto may need to call in the Demeanor Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The city council is wrestling with a code of conduct that urges elected officials not to roll their eyes. Or shake their heads. Or frown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Experts say the council&#8217;s plan to discourage non-verbal forms of &#8220;disagreement or disgust&#8221; is odd, unenforceable and almost an infringement on free speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just bizarre,&#8221; says University of Kansas Professor Burdett Loomis, who specializes in political civility. &#8220;You&#8217;d be thinking all the time, `What expression do I have on my face?&#8217; &#8221;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/5576044.htm\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">After reading this story I believe I am in violation of their policy.  Maybe they could just say they are expressing their happiness with an inverted smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palo Alto may need to call in the Demeanor Police. The city council is wrestling with a code of conduct that urges elected officials not to roll their eyes. Or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}