{"id":346,"date":"2006-07-12T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=346"},"modified":"2006-07-12T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T19:47:14","slug":"klingon-batleth-confiscated-as-deadly-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Klingon Bat&#8217;leth confiscated by Police as &#8216;Deadly Weapon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Klingon Batleth\" title=\"Klingon Batleth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/batleth_out.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police confiscated a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batleth\">Klingon Bat&#8217;leth<\/a> in a raid on a house in Gloucestershire. It was subsequently used by them to promote the nationwide knife amnesty that was taking place in the UK last month.<\/p>\n<p>Is it REALLY possible that not a single police officer in Gloucestershire has never seen Star Trek TNG?<\/p>\n<p>Is it REALLY possible that not a single journalist that was spreading this story has never seen Star Trek TNG, and did not point out to the police that &#8230;. using a Bat&#8217;leth to promote a knife amnesty is &#8230; <em>very funny<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This piece comes from HELLO magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not ask me what I was doing reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police confiscated a Klingon Bat&#8217;leth in a raid on a house in Gloucestershire. It was subsequently used by them to promote the nationwide knife amnesty that was taking place in the UK last month. Is it REALLY possible that not a single police officer in Gloucestershire has never seen Star Trek TNG? Is it REALLY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3,14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}