{"id":8372,"date":"2002-11-21T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/21\/this-policeman-brought-to-you-by-a-grant-from-exxon\/"},"modified":"2002-11-21T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T18:00:46","slug":"this-policeman-brought-to-you-by-a-grant-from-exxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/this-policeman-brought-to-you-by-a-grant-from-exxon\/","title":{"rendered":"This policeman brought to you by a grant from Exxon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>&nbsp;NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. \ufffd Cash-strapped police<br \/>\ndepartments around the country \ufffd including in Hagerstown, Md. \ufffd are considering<br \/>\nselling advertising space on their patrol cars, an idea that has some officers<br \/>\nworried they will get stuck driving around with an embarrassing ad. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;I don&#8217;t want my officers<br \/>\ndriving around in a car [with a suggestive condom ad],&#8221; said Louis Napoletano,<br \/>\npublic safety director of Long Branch, NJ &#8220;We&#8217;ve come a long way to be perceived<br \/>\nas professional, and this would set us way back.&#8221;<\/font><br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/business\/20021121-46264600.htm\"\ntarget=_blank>Full story<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Dunkin Donuts or Crispy Kreme<br \/>\nwill be the first sponsors? An what would a suggestive condom ad be? Would it be<br \/>\n&#8220;Where the rubber meets the road&#8221; or &#8220;To serve and protect&#8221;? It would give a<br \/>\nwhole new meaning to the word copulation. Actually I think a truer condom ad<br \/>\nshould be &#8220;Remember Onan&#8221; &#8211;Genesis 38:9-10. Using advertising on patrol cars<br \/>\nwould be really tacky, especially targeted ads from bail bondsmen and<br \/>\nlawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. \ufffd Cash-strapped police departments around the country \ufffd including in Hagerstown, Md. \ufffd are considering selling advertising space on their patrol cars, an idea that has some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","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=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}