{"id":1246,"date":"2015-04-09T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:15:11","slug":"kind-of-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/04\/09\/kind-of-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind of Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I signed my release papers today.\u00a0 I&#8217;m kind of free.\u00a0 Until the court processes the paper work, I still can&#8217;t leave the country without a court order, but at least I can leave the county, or travel out of state.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t relocate to another state without first getting permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even after the court processes the paperwork, I probably won&#8217;t be able to own firearms (no big deal since I never have) or vote (bigger deal, because, even though I know my vote will be swamped by bought votes, it&#8217;s still symbolic).\u00a0 Because I&#8217;ve got a no-contact order, apparently that may hold the case open and make getting my voting rights back difficult to impossible.\u00a0 It all comes down to having money for attorneys, which I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 The rich and the poor live by two entirely different sets of rules in this country.\u00a0 Gotta love it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, at least I can travel within the states where I want to, don&#8217;t have to avoid minors and feel like some kind of leper, don&#8217;t have to go sit in an office for an hour to report in to a community corrections officer, or have my house regularly invaded by same.\u00a0 I get to use whatever computer sites I choose to now, can use IRC, peer-to-peer, and some social media sites that I previously was restricted from.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I signed my release papers today.\u00a0 I&#8217;m kind of free.\u00a0 Until the court processes the paper work, I still can&#8217;t leave the country without a court order, but at least I can leave the county, or travel out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/04\/09\/kind-of-free\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}