{"id":178,"date":"2007-06-19T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/06\/19\/an-arresting-affair\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:48:52","slug":"an-arresting-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/06\/19\/an-arresting-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"An Arresting Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Arresting Affair (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A gal in New York was arrested<br \/>\nFor strolling outdoors while bare-breasted.<br \/>\nBut courts say, &#8220;No fair!<br \/>\nYou can not make gals wear<br \/>\nShirts and blouses, cause men go bare-chested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, CNN reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LAW\/06\/18\/topless.settlement.ap\/index.html\">Jill Coccaro has received a $29,000 settlement of her civil rights lawsuit against New York City.<\/a> She&#8217;d been arrested for topless strolling and was detained for twelve hours, despite a 1992 New York State appeals court ruling that women have the same right as men to remove their shirts.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/legalhumor.html\">legal verse and humor here<\/a>, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/feminist_humor.html\">feminist humor here<\/a>,\u00a0and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/new_york_humor.html\">New York humor and limericks here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> August 26th is <a href=\"http:\/\/gotopless.org\/gotopless-day\">Go Topless Day<\/a>, sponsored by GoTopless.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arresting Affair (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane A gal in New York was arrested For strolling outdoors while bare-breasted. But courts say, &#8220;No fair! You can not make gals wear Shirts and blouses, cause men go bare-chested.&#8221; Yesterday, CNN reported that Jill Coccaro has received a $29,000 settlement of her civil rights lawsuit against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,48,38,10,42,73,1524,32,79],"tags":[3177,2892,2893,2899,276,3185,2896,2895,2897,2894,2898,2900,2891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15709,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/15709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}