{"id":8210,"date":"2003-03-31T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/03\/31\/man-barks-dog\/"},"modified":"2003-03-31T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T00:49:26","slug":"man-barks-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/03\/man-barks-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Barks Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">ATHENS, Ohio &#8211; A man was using his free speech rights when he barked back at a police dog, a state appeals court has ruled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The 4th Ohio District Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of charges against a man who answered the barks of Pepsie in this southeast Ohio city in September 2001. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Jeremy Gilchrist, then 21, encountered the dog, which was in a police cruiser, as he walked along a street with friends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">His attorney said he was trying to be funny when he barked back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;The mere fact that the police dog had commenced the barking did not entitle it to a solo performance,&#8221; attorney Patrick McGee wrote in the appeal. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=816&#038;ncid=816&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20030331\/ap_on_fe_st\/right_to_bark\">Full Article<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ohio &#8211; A man was using his free speech rights when he barked back at a police dog, a state appeals court has ruled. The 4th Ohio District Court&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-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}