{"id":17,"date":"2004-06-13T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-06-13T20:35:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T00:35:48","slug":"no-porn-for-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"No porn for Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, looks like some major porn shops in several Texas towns, including my home town, are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/06\/12\/porn.mogul.ap\/index.html\">closing down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The closings are a result of a tax evasion case.  I guess though, part of is that adult video is such a shady topic that it&#8217;s easy for anyone to say you&#8217;ve broken the law somehow.  And it&#8217;s clear that in this case, the fact that the owner of these shops was dealing in smut made him a target.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.. guess the porn addicts in Texas must order their stuff on the web now.  Oh wait, if the credit card companies have their way, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,63799,00.html\">may not be around<\/a> for long either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porn shops are slated to close in Southwest Texas and in other states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}