{"id":280,"date":"2005-03-29T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T22:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/03\/29\/was-the-judge-a-sardar\/"},"modified":"2005-03-29T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T10:44:39","slug":"was-the-judge-a-sardar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200503\/was-the-judge-a-sardar\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the judge a Sardar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people thought that I was doing a satire when I wrote my entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2004\/06\/28\/the-secularism-of-sardars\/\">The Secularism of Sardars<\/a>. I thought so too. But it turns out that I was wrong. It seems that a judge in Colorado <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory?id=621347\">threw out a conviction<\/a> because the jurors were influenced by Bible verses when they decided on the sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people thought that I was doing a satire when I wrote my entry on The Secularism of Sardars. I thought so too. But it turns out that I was wrong. It seems that a judge in Colorado threw out a conviction because the jurors were influenced by Bible verses when they decided on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}