{"id":118,"date":"2005-11-08T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=118"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:39:24","slug":"bars-open-schools-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Bars Open, Schools Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confusing sequence of events that could only happen in KY. By law, there are no alcohol sales during the hours that the polls are open. Idealists think this is to prevent another incident like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvculture.org\/history\/crime\/hatfieldmccoy01.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">Hatfield-McCoy feud<\/a>. Cynics think it&#8217;s to give the vote-buyers with their supply of half-pints a more willing market. Schools are also closed, possibly to prevent children from being caught in Hatfield-McCoy crossfire, or possibly to give the children a chance to assist in delivering votes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There had been a referendum election scheduled in Fayette County today, until the state Supreme Court shut it down a couple of weeks ago. Since it was too late to change the school calendar after the election was cancelled, the kids still got the day off. But since there was no election, there was no reason to shut down the bars. So at least the kids had a place to hang out to keep them off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A confusing sequence of events that could only happen in KY. By law, there are no alcohol sales during the hours that the polls are open. Idealists think this is to prevent another incident like the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Cynics think it&#8217;s to give the vote-buyers with their supply of half-pints a more willing market. Schools&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=118\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bars Open, Schools Closed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-1U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}