{"id":208,"date":"2008-03-22T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/03\/22\/ode-to-colorado-nanny-state\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T18:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T22:31:37","slug":"ode-to-colorado-nanny-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/03\/22\/ode-to-colorado-nanny-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Colorado: Nanny State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeralyn over at Talk Left has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2008\/3\/22\/132013\/427\">declared Colorado to be a &#8220;Nanny State.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 Why? Because its Appeals Court has decreed that Colorado no-smoking laws apply to actors on stage.<\/p>\n<p>(Coincidentally, just last night my husband and I\u00a0saw an Off-Broadway play during which two of the actors smoked.\u00a0 In fact, we got a second-row contact-high from one of them.)<\/p>\n<p>But getting back to the Colorado judiciary, the\u00a0court deserves a limerick, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Colorado: Nanny State<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No smoking on stage!&#8221; says the judge,<br \/>\nCuz &#8220;No smoking indoors!&#8221; He won&#8217;t budge.<br \/>\nSo no matter the role,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a no-smoke patrol.<br \/>\nSoon they won&#8217;t let their actors eat fudge.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/smoking-humor\/\">my smoking-related humor here<\/a> and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/category\/movie-humor\/\">theater-related humor here.<\/a>)[tags]Legal Satire, Judge Humor, No-Smoking Humor, Smoking Laws, Theater Humor, Actors Verse[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeralyn over at Talk Left has declared Colorado to be a &#8220;Nanny State.&#8221;\u00a0 Why? Because its Appeals Court has decreed that Colorado no-smoking laws apply to actors on stage. (Coincidentally, just last night my husband and I\u00a0saw an Off-Broadway play during which two of the actors smoked.\u00a0 In fact, we got a second-row contact-high from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,66,10,2,465,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship-satire","category-free-speech","category-judiciary","category-law","category-nanny-state","category-social-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}