{"id":1866,"date":"2008-01-26T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-law-is-a-ass\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T11:46:10","slug":"the-law-is-a-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-law-is-a-ass","title":{"rendered":"The law is a ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading over the morning papers online, I came across a WSJ story about the FCC&#8217;s five-year-long crusade to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120132197136519283.html\" target=\"_blank\">fine ABC and some of its affiliates over an episode of NYPD Blue<\/a> for showing a woman&#8217;s butt onscreen before 10 p.m. Takeaway line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although ABC argues, without citing any authority, that the buttocks are not a sexual organ, we reject this argument, which runs counter to both case law and common sense,&#8221; the FCC said in its complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading over the morning papers online, I came across a WSJ story about the FCC&#8217;s five-year-long crusade to fine ABC and some of its affiliates over an episode of NYPD Blue for showing a woman&#8217;s butt onscreen before 10 p.m. Takeaway line: &#8220;Although ABC argues, without citing any authority, that the buttocks are not a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-law-is-a-ass\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The law is a ass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-u6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":467,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-new-year-2","url_meta":{"origin":1866,"position":0},"title":"Happy New Year","author":"Gil","date":"January 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The official VM girlfriend and I spent New Year's Eve watching the first two Lord of the Rings flicks. 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