{"id":3239,"date":"2005-03-06T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2021-06-06T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:58:16","slug":"fiction-is-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/03\/06\/fiction-is-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction is a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The Thought Police just nabbed another one, namely William Poole, 18, whose heinous crime is apparently possession of an imagination. &#8220;<i>A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlextv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=2989614\" title=\"Link to news article\">LEX 18 News<\/a> Thursday that the &#8216;writings&#8217; that got him arrested are being taken out of context.<\/i><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;[\u2026] <i>Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.<\/i><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;<i>&#8216;My story is based on fiction,&#8217; said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. &#8216;It&#8217;s a fake story. I made it up. I&#8217;ve been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over[run] by zombies.&#821;<\/i><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;<i>On Thursday, a judge raised Poole&#8217;s bond from one to five thousand dollars after prosecutors requested it, citing the seriousness of the charge.<\/I>&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Sounds like the high school isn&#8217;t the only thing overrun.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Thought Police just nabbed another one, namely William Poole, 18, whose heinous crime is apparently possession of an imagination. &#8220;A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/03\/06\/fiction-is-a-crime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}