{"id":190014,"date":"2010-01-15T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/15\/they-who-must-not-be-named-3\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T02:35:00","slug":"they-who-must-not-be-named-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/15\/they-who-must-not-be-named-3\/","title":{"rendered":"They Who Must Not Be Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us add Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601079&amp;sid=ajrgivBzusPU\">any other moron who decides that celebrity justifies their carrying a firearm in violation of the local laws<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas, who was suspended from professional basketball, pleaded guilty to a felony count of carrying a handgun without a license.<\/p>\n<p>Arenas, 28, entered the plea today before District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in Washington. Under a plea agreement, Arenas admitted violating a District of Columbia law on carrying an unlicensed handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, he likely will receive a sentence much lighter than the five years he might otherwise face. The agreement calls for prosecutors to recommend a sentence of six months when Arenas is sentenced on March 26. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the prosecution asks for 6 months, can they please <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">also<\/span> ask for the sentence to be served at the same time as the NBA season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us add Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas, as well as any other moron who decides that celebrity justifies their carrying a firearm in violation of the local laws: Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas, who was suspended from professional basketball, pleaded guilty to a felony count of carrying a handgun without a license. Arenas, 28, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,972,1118,1057,982,1082],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-justice","category-meta","category-sports","category-stupid","category-they-who-must-not-be-named"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}