{"id":967,"date":"2012-06-05T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2012-06-05T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T12:47:20","slug":"no-culture-worth-emulation-would-tolerate-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No culture&#8230;worth emulation would tolerate this.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several recent articles I have come across speak to the issue of human trafficking as not being something that happens &#8216;over there&#8217; far away from &#8216;us.&#8217; \u00a0In fact, human trafficking occurs at an alarming rate in the city I live near: \u00a0Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>One of these articles appeared April 6, 2012, and is entitled, &#8220;Pimp gets 50 years at dramatic hearing&#8221; (full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-04-06\/news\/ct-met-pimping-predator-0406-20120406_1_datqunn-sawyer-prostitute-federal-court\">http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-04-06\/news\/ct-met-pimping-predator-0406-20120406_1_datqunn-sawyer-prostitute-federal-court<\/a>). \u00a0While the punishment administered is\u00a0believed to be the\u00a0toughest ever handed down to a convicted sex trafficker in Chicago&#8217;s federal court, what really made me jump for joy were the words U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras said at the sentencing hearing: \u00a0&#8220;No culture &#8230; worth emulation would tolerate this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eloquent. \u00a0To the point. \u00a0Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several recent articles I have come across speak to the issue of human trafficking as not being something that happens &#8216;over there&#8217; far away from &#8216;us.&#8217; \u00a0In fact, human trafficking occurs at an alarming rate in the city I live near: \u00a0Chicago. One of these articles appeared April 6, 2012, and is entitled, &#8220;Pimp gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}