{"id":908,"date":"2004-06-11T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=908"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:26:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:26:56","slug":"painting-the-town-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/06\/painting-the-town-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Town Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are police really bringing felony charges against Utah players who (gasp!) painted the BYU &#8220;Y&#8221; red prior to a game?  <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncaa\/news\/story?id=1819605\">Apparently they are<\/a>.  This sounds like a terrible overreaction to me.  If the news story is correct, someone (a BYU alum?) believes it proper to bring charges against these college kids, that could subject the nefarious Y-painters to up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some punishment for the painters may be appropriate.  Perhaps they should have to repaint (under supervision) a few Y buildings that are in need of a new paint job &#8212; these kids certainly know how to paint!  It also may be proper to make them pay for the repainting costs of the letter.  I&#8217;m sure that there are other potential punishments that would fit the infraction.  But it seems clear that felony charges do not fit the infraction here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are police really bringing felony charges against Utah players who (gasp!) painted the BYU &#8220;Y&#8221; red prior to a game? Apparently they are. This sounds like a terrible overreaction to me. If the news story is correct, someone (a BYU alum?) believes it proper to bring charges against these college kids, that could subject the nefarious Y-painters to up to 15 years in prison. Of course, some punishment for the painters may be appropriate. Perhaps they should have to repaint (under supervision) a few Y buildings that are in need of a new paint job &#8212; these kids certainly know how to paint! It also may be proper to make them pay for the repainting costs of the letter. I&#8217;m sure that there are other potential punishments that would fit the infraction. But it seems clear that felony charges do not fit the infraction here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-popular-culture-and-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}