{"id":134,"date":"2005-11-22T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T16:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-11-22T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T16:17:41","slug":"midnight_expres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/11\/midnight_expres\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Express &#8211; Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know, it must be the money, real good money to be made, otherwise I cannot fathom the stupidity and motivation behind drug trafficking in Singapore. Geeze, the entry form they make you fill on the airplanes, before landing in Singapore, clearly reads &#8220;The penalty for drug trafficking in Singapore is Death&#8221;&#8230; I suppose stupidity is also a capital crime in there. Well, tread carefully when there&#8230;<br \/>\nOne of my favorite T-shirts, that I bought in Singapore, reads: &#8220;Born free, fined to death.&#8221; That should give you a clue&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"VOA News - Canberra Rules Out Legal Move to Stop Singapore from Executing Australian Drug Trafficker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2005-11-22-voa25.cfm\">VOA News &#8211; Canberra Rules Out Legal Move to Stop Singapore from Executing Australian Drug Trafficker<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPrime Minister Howard says trying to force Singapore to have the case heard by the International Court of Justice &#8211; known as the ICJ &#8211; could damage Van Nguyen&#8217;s slim chances of avoiding the gallows.<br \/>\nSingapore, whose laws provide for a mandatory death sentence in serious drug cases, plans to hang the 25-year-old Vietnamese-born Australian in nine days.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know, it must be the money, real good money to be made, otherwise I cannot fathom the stupidity and motivation behind drug trafficking in Singapore. Geeze, the entry form they make you fill on the airplanes, before landing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/11\/midnight_expres\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}