{"id":8426,"date":"2002-12-12T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2002-12-12T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/12\/catholic-profiling-driving-while-catholic\/"},"modified":"2002-12-12T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2002-12-12T21:40:43","slug":"catholic-profiling-driving-while-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/catholic-profiling-driving-while-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic profiling &#8211; driving while Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Stepping lightly in her blue cloth coat, short red hair<br \/>\nshining, the petite suburban Irish Catholic woman was properly dressed for<br \/>\ncourt, ready to be judged for the terrible crime of having a rosary dangling<br \/>\nfrom the mirror of her car.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;See? I&#8217;ve got it, and I&#8217;m not letting go,&#8221; Catherine<br \/>\n&#8220;Kit&#8221; Morris told me Wednesday, drawing her tiny fist out of her pocket, the<br \/>\nfingers gripping it tightly, knuckles whitening. &#8220;I&#8217;m so nervous. I think I&#8217;m<br \/>\ngoing to pass out. Look at it. Is this an illegal object? Will they dare fine me<br \/>\n$75 for a rosary?&#8221;<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>It was her light blue rosary with the white cross, the<br \/>\none her children made for her long ago, the rosary that a Westmont police<br \/>\nofficer deemed was illegal, before giving her a $75 ticket for obstructing the<br \/>\nwindshield. <br \/><\/font>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/printedition\/chi-0212050312dec05.story\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping lightly in her blue cloth coat, short red hair shining, the petite suburban Irish Catholic woman was properly dressed for court, ready to be judged for the terrible crime&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","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=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}