{"id":196750,"date":"2008-03-27T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/27\/guns-for-what\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:34:00","slug":"guns-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/27\/guns-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns for What?????????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article3593874.ece\">giving firearms permits to men who get vasectomies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">A scheme that trades one male status symbol for another has achieved a large rise in the number of men undergoing vasectomies in a bandit-ridden region of central India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Shivpuri district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, an overpopulated area renowned for its machismo culture, has started to offer fast-tracked gun licences for those who agree to be sterilised.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There has to be a crude joke here, but I&#8217;m not seeing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is now giving firearms permits to men who get vasectomies. A scheme that trades one male status symbol for another has achieved a large rise in the number of men undergoing vasectomies in a bandit-ridden region of central India. Shivpuri district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, an overpopulated area renowned for its machismo &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196750"}],"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=196750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}