{"id":5676,"date":"2019-02-24T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2019-02-24T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:32:09","slug":"why-we-wait-for-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/why-we-wait-for-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY WE WAIT FOR THE FACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regular readers know that when this blog looks at criminal justice issues, our mantra is \u201cDon\u2019t judge until you\u2019ve heard both sides.\u201d While it\u2019s not gun related, that principle is starkly underscored by the recent Jussie Smollett affair. In the city where it happened, the not-exactly-pro-police <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chicago Tribune recently published this column by Rex Huppke (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/huppke\/ct-met-jussie-smollett-hoax-chicago-police-huppke-20190221-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune <\/a><\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chicago Tribune recently published this column by Rex Huppke (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/huppke\/ct-met-jussie-smollett-hoax-chicago-police-huppke-20190221-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently published this column by Rex Huppke<\/a>, which puts the matter in solid perspective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that when this blog looks at criminal justice issues, our mantra is \u201cDon\u2019t judge until you\u2019ve heard both sides.\u201d While it\u2019s not gun related, that principle is starkly underscored by the recent Jussie Smollett affair. In the city where it happened, the not-exactly-pro-police Chicago Tribune recently published this column by Rex Huppke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}